Landlords will not be expected to convert all re-lets to
affordable rents in the new funding programme, a civil servant has
stressed. Graham Duncan, deputy director
of affordable housing regulation and investment at the CLG, yesterday denied
suggestions that the new £3.3 billion funding programme marks ‘the end of
social rented properties’. This followed housing minister Mark Prisk’s comments
recently that landlords will be expected to consider all empty properties for
conversion to ‘affordable rent’. Read
more on Inside Housing.
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Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
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