Housing associations say they won’t bid for grant funding
if they are required to build small homes. Scores of English landlords are
threatening to reject £1.7 billion of government grant if they are forced to
build large numbers of one and two-bedroom homes. The bidding criteria for the
2015/18 affordable homes programme, which covers all of England, apart from
London, states that providers should ‘focus’ on providing smaller homes in
areas where tenants are under-occupying. Read more on Inside Housing.
Country diary: The challenge of making a thatched roof pine-marten proof |
Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
Still, as a local told me, ‘you cannae blame them wanting somewhere to live’
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