Nearly 17,000 Applications Over First Year Of PRS Improvement Scheme

Just over a year ago, Nottingham city council introduced a new housing licensing scheme to help tackle issues such as antisocial behaviour to poor property conditions – and it has seen nearly 17,000 applications so far. “This scheme has already helped to improve rented properties across the city, and it is important that landlords get the homes they own licensed and work with the council to help improve renting standards in the city and make lives better for tenants living in these homes,” said Cllr Linda Woodings, council portfolio holder for planning, housing and heritage. The scheme runs alongside the other licensing initiatives schemes operating for HMOs. Read more on 24housing.

https://www.24housing.co.uk/news/nearly-17000-applications-over-first-year-of-prs-improvement-scheme/

How Nottingham Labour Is Tackling The Housing Crisis

In May 2015, Nottingham Labour stood for election on five key pledges, one of which was a commitment to build 2,500 new homes that Nottingham people could afford to rent or buy. Four years later we have managed to build 2,293 new affordable homes and we have 534 more in the planning stages. Achieving this meant that Nottingham City Council embarked on the biggest new council house building program in a generation: over the last four years, we’ve built 523 new council homes. The political focus we placed on meeting this target means we have created award winning quality developments in partnership with our ALMO, Nottingham City Homes and they are now one of the top social housing builders in the UK. Read more of this article by Cllr Linda Woodings on the Labourlist website.

https://labourlist.org/2019/04/how-nottingham-labour-is-tackling-the-housing-crisis-and-wants-to-do-more/