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Ministers ignore accessible housing while spending millions on thousands of new homes

By John Pring on 10th June 2021 Category: Housing

Ministers ignore accessible housing while spending millions on thousands of new homes
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Ministers are to spend £30 million on projects across England that could lead to more than 17,000 new homes, but they are refusing to insist that a single one of them is built to strict accessibility standards. Despite announcing funding for […]

Ministers sat on accessible housing research for up to four years

By John Pring on 28th January 2021 Category: Housing

Ministers sat on accessible housing research for up to four years
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Ministers delayed publishing a report that called for more research into the benefits of accessible housing for up to four years, Disability News Service can reveal. The report, by architectural firm PRP, was finally published last week by the Ministry of […]

Disabled high-rise leaseholders are living in post-Grenfell fear of fire and financial ruin

By John Pring on 7th January 2021 Category: Housing

Disabled high-rise leaseholders are living in post-Grenfell fear of fire and financial ruin
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Disabled people who lease their own flats in high-rise buildings have been left frightened for their lives, but also in fear of losing their homes, because of the government’s failure to address the growing post-Grenfell safety scandal. A new campaign group, […]

Long-awaited accessible housing consultation gives little away

By John Pring on 10th September 2020 Category: Housing

Long-awaited accessible housing consultation gives little away
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The government has finally published a long-promised consultation on whether it should introduce higher accessibility standards for new housing in England, although it fails to say what kind of reforms ministers want to see. The consultation paper, Raising Accessibility Standards for […]

Government’s ‘contempt’ for disabled people, as planning white paper ignores accessible housing

By John Pring on 13th August 2020 Category: Housing

Government’s ‘contempt’ for disabled people, as planning white paper ignores accessible housing
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The government has been accused of “showing contempt” for disabled people after publishing an “utterly shameful” 84-page white paper on the future of the planning system without including a single mention of disabled people, disability or accessible housing. The Planning for […]

Cabinet minister admits ‘no consensus’ on social care, despite Johnson’s pledge

By John Pring on 31st October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Cabinet minister admits ‘no consensus’ on social care, despite Johnson’s pledge
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A cabinet minister has admitted there is “no consensus” on how to solve the adult social care funding crisis, even though the prime minister announced he had a “clear plan” for doing so when he took office in October. Robert Jenrick, […]

Government faces legal action threat over accessible housing failure

By John Pring on 19th September 2019 Category: Housing

Government faces legal action threat over accessible housing failure
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The government is facing the threat of legal action over its failure to take action to solve the crisis in accessible housing. The housing, communities and local government secretary Robert Jenrick has been told that he may have acted unlawfully over […]

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