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| Photo: Connor Creaghan for The Lincolnite A new report, which reveals 31 people in Louth were sleeping rough last year, has highlighted how invisible the issue in East Lindsey can be. A report before the Overview Committee next Tuesday (June 1) shows that the average nightly number of people sleeping rough in the district dropped by more than 77% in three years, councillors will be told next week. An annual snapshot showed the number of people on the district’s streets on a “typical night...

MORE than 150 households in Worcester were assessed as either being homeless or at risk of homelessness last winter.

The homes are purchased in part, using money from Right to Buy receipts. This is the money the council gets from selling council homes to existing tenants and which it has to use to fund further housing otherwise it has to be repaid to the HM Treasury. Three of the homes are single bedroom and were bought using £600,000 of Government funding for the Next Steps Accommodation Programme. The properties will be used as non-secure tenancies to help those moving on from homelessness. And the...

However, the real question is why did we get to this position in Ipswich in the first place? And how do we ensure that going forward we avoid this from happening? It was reported this week that it will probably cost around £100,000 to just get the pigeon faeces removed from the Paul’s Silo building. It is so caked onto the walls and the floors inside that it requires a mammoth industrial clean to even make it safe to occupy. No wonder it is costing that much just to remove the poo! Nothing s...

However, the real question is why did we get to this position in Ipswich in the first place? And how do we ensure that going forward we avoid this from happening? It was reported this week that it will probably cost around £100,000 to just get the pigeon faeces removed from the Paul’s Silo building. It is so caked onto the walls and the floors inside that it requires a mammoth industrial clean to even make it safe to occupy. No wonder it is costing that much just to remove the poo! Nothing s...

PLANS to extend and improve a care home in York have been given the go-ahead - as part of what council chiefs have called a drive to provide high quality accommodation for older people. City of York Councils planning committee agreed plans for the redevelopment work at Haxby Hall care home on Wednesday evening. The work will be carried out by Yorkare Limited, which will also take over the management of the residents’ care, as well as the current staff team, from March 31 this year. A ...

Share Advantage Travel Partnership and WIN Global Travel Network member TMCs are to gain access to a wider range of serviced apartments after they signed a new partnership with the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers (ASAP).  The deal will see ASAP’s serviced apartments added to Advantage and WIN’s Global Accommodation Programme – 2021 which will give TMCs access to accredited apartments that are "safe, secure and meet infection control hygiene standards".   Leig...

PICTURED: Homeless man, stock image READING West MP Alok Sharma talks this week about plans to end rough sleeping. He writes; The Government is committed to ending rough sleeping in this Parliament and to fully enforcing the Homelessness Reduction Act. That is why we will be spending more than £750 million in 2021/22 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. The Government has this week announced the allocation of a key element of this overall investment: £310 million in funding through th...

PLANS to turn a detached home in a Brierley Hill street into a HMO to help rough sleepers get back on their feet have been approved.

PLANS by Dudley Council to turn a detached home in Brierley Hill into a HMO to help rough sleepers get back on their feet have been slammed by…