The Conservative mayoral candidate for City Hall has said many of the capital’s 62,000 homeless households in temporary accommodation could save for a mortgage deposit and buy a shared ownership home. Shaun Bailey defended his plans to use housing budgets to build a higher proportion of shared ownership homes – where residents buy a share and rent the remainder – than Sadiq Khan. Mr Bailey has promised to deliver 100,000 affordable homes with his £4bn housing budget if he wins the election in April, with a large proportion of them shared ownership. 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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