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Pension Funds & Green Deal
Posted by Chloe Shivraj on 10.05.12 | No comments yet
Can pension funds be attracted to the social housing sector? And, will the Green Deal open up further funding avenues to help RPs meet increasing government demands for affordable housing?
Ready, Steady, Go – Karting!
Posted by Chloe Shivraj on 04.05.12 | No comments yet
The 3rd Croftons GP took place last week with around 30 representatives from some of the North West’s leading social housing organisations…
Excellence Award for Conveyancing
Posted by Chloe Shivraj on 24.04.12 | No comments yet
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) Accreditation by the Law Society; the quality mark for residential property lawyers
Love Architecture Festival
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RIBA NW Solo Practitioners Group (SPG) is delighted to announce that it will be taking part in the first Love Architecture Festival…
First Green Deal Participants Announced
Posted by Lucy on 11.04.12 | No comments yet
The first 22 organisations to have signed up to the Green Deal have been announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change . The organisations, which vary in size and stature from household names like British Gas and E.On to smaller community groups, have all signed the ‘memorandum of understanding’. The scheme, which is [...]
Lucy Worrall : Lawyer of the Year 2012
Posted by Simon Leighton on 05.04.12 | No comments yet
Women in Construction Awards 2012 : Croftons partner and specialist social housing lawyer Lucy Worrall named Lawyer of the Year 2012
Revamped Right to Buy Launched
Posted by Lucy on 04.04.12 | No comments yet
David Cameron officially launched the revitalised Right to Buy scheme on 3 April which was first announced in last November’s housing strategy. The scheme was initially introduced in the 1980s and capped discounts at £25,000. The Government’s newest Right to Buy model offers discounts of up to £75,000 – this is four times the current [...]
Self-financing becomes reality for Local Authority landlords
Posted by Lucy on 03.04.12 | No comments yet
A new era for local authorities which have housing stock has begun. “The concept,” says Lucy Worrall, social housing specialist and partner at Croftons Solicitors LLP, “is to create a level playing field so councils can fund their housing comfortably and avoid some with huge surpluses and others with equally large deficits.” “This is a [...]
Latest: Supreme Court reject DECC’s appeal over FiT cuts
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The Supreme Court last week rejected the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s appeal over premature cuts to the feed-in-tariff scheme for solar PV. On Monday 26 March, a panel of Supreme Justices refused the Government permission to appeal an earlier High Court ruling – this means that any PV systems installed between 12 December [...]
Lucy Wins Lawyer of the Year 2012
Posted by Naeem Dean on 16.03.12 | No comments yet
Amidst rapturous applause from a packed audience of guests at the Women in Construction Awards, Croftons partner and specialist social housing lawyer Lucy Worrall was named Lawyer of the Year 2012. Held last night at The Point (Lancashire County Cricket Ground, Manchester), the Women in Construction Awards aim to recognise and celebrate female achievements within [...]
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- Pension Funds & Green Deal
Can pension funds be attracted to the social housing sector? And, will the Green Deal open up further funding avenues to help RPs meet increasing government demands for affordable housing?
- Ready, Steady, Go – Karting!
The 3rd Croftons GP took place last week with around 30 representatives from some of the North West’s leading social housing organisations…
