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ASYLUM
Providing new homes for asylum seekers while tackling the wider housing emergency
By Tim Naor Hilton | 15 December 2025
If done correctly, a new system for housing people seeking asylum would bring fundamental benefits including new homes and investment in services and jobs, local oversight and the end of hotels, wr...
APSE
APSE's annual polling generates good and bad news for councils
By Mo Baines | 11 December 2025
Highlights from APSE’s major annual Survation poll has found a divergence of views amongst the pu...
PLANNING
What does the Epping 'asylum hotel' High Court case mean for councils and planning departments?
By Ben Standing | 08 December 2025
After a council’s attempt to block asylum seekers from staying at a hotel was thwarted by the cou...
ASYLUM
Backlash warning over asylum decentralisation
By Joe Lepper | 04 December 2025
Councils fear a backlash from far-right activists if responsibility for housing asylum seekers wa...
ASYLUM
Epping Forest to appeal Bell Hotel decision despite set back
By Joe Lepper | 03 December 2025
Epping Forest DC is to appeal a High Court injunction to stop the use of a hotel, which has been ...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Reeves commits to homelessness review
By Dan Peters | 27 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to a review of homelessness service funding.
POLICY AND POLITICS
Reed vows to stop those trying to pull country apart
By Dan Peters | 25 November 2025
Communities secretary Steve Reed has vowed to stop ‘people at the extremes of politics who are tr...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Cohesion concerns over asylum plan
By William Eichler | 29 October 2025
Plans by the Home Office to house around 900 asylum seekers at two military bases in England and ...
COHESION
Community restoration
By Dan Peters | 28 October 2025
After last year’s horrific terror attack in Southport, Sefton Council has been working tirelessly...
WHITEHALL
Councils to call for tighter HMO controls
By Neil Merrick | 02 October 2025
Councils are expected to call for tighter controls over houses in multiple occupation (HMO) after...
CONSERVATIVES
Stability, partnership and delivery
By Sir James Cleverly | 02 October 2025
As delegates prepare to head to the Conservative party conference, Sir James Cleverly highlights ...
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