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Exclusive: School-Home Support finds proportion of children citing such concerns has risen 73% year on yearInsecure, unsuitable and poor quality housing is increasingly a barrier to children going to school, according to an education charity that works…
Fiona Fey, of popular choir Mediaeval Baebes, says her livelihood was threatened by noise abatement orderMusicians are facing a postcode lottery of noise complaints, industry leaders have warned, after a member of the classical chart-topping choir Medi…
The quirky appeal of Rye Lane is threatened by developer’s 14 high-rise flats, say residentsThere’s a scene in Rye Lane, a film said to be breathing new life into romcoms, where the two main characters stroll past a body-popping white-haired man in a …
Michael Gove to introduce bill strengthening lessors’ rights in England as charities warn of impact for domestic abuse victimsLandlords in England will be able to evict tenants for antisocial behaviour more easily as part of a wider package of reforms …
Robert Alton, 70, is believed to have died in 2017 with his death going unnoticed by his landlord and local councilThe body of a retired bookkeeper lay undiscovered in his flat for six years with his “skeletal” remains found only after housing official…
Row between Michael Gove and No 10 results in end of promise to scrap leaseholdsWhat is leasehold, and are there any alternatives?Plans to abolish the “feudal” system of leaseholds across England and Wales have been dropped after a battle between Downi…
Watchdog says gaps in regulation are letting landlords offer costly supported accommodation ‘with little or no support’Increasing numbers of landlords are profiting from letting bad housing to some of society’s most vulnerable people, the National Audi…
Exclusive: Aysen Dennis says plans to bulldoze Aylesbury estate are unlawful and amount to ‘social cleansing’A woman who has lived on the same council estate for 30 years has taken developers and her local authority to the high court over plans to demo…
Move comes as senior Tory blames party’s scrapping of housebuilding targets for poor local election resultsLabour is considering moves to levy higher taxes on foreign buyers of UK homes, as a senior Conservative blamed their party’s abolition of houseb…
‘Pay as you feel’ celebration in Armley, one of city’s most deprived wards, is one of more than 67,000 across bank holiday weekendParishioners had put out enough chairs in the grounds of Christ Church in Armley, Leeds, to seat about 80 people for their…