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Flats to be given £2.2m refurbishment to give rough sleepers place to call home Three flat blocks in Peasley Cross St Helens are undergoing a major transformation 18:49, 21 APR 2021 Housing group Torus is currently redeveloping three flat blocks in Peasley Cross (Image: Image: Torus) Get the best St Helens news with our newsletter dedicated to the townInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up Now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you ...

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...

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…

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide extra support to get homeless off streets in Newark and Sherwood  | Updated: 11:44, 29 December 2020 Extra support is to be made available for the homeless in Newark and Sherwood thanks to a government grant. The district council has secured £22,846 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide additional support and advice for homeless people and rough sleepers through the government’s Next S...

A rough sleeper in Oxford OXFORDs city council is committing £9.1m of public money to tackling homelessness in its budget for next year, The budget, which is currently in a draft form that needs to be approved, includes plans to spend extra funding from the Government, bringing its original plans to spend £8.2m on homelessness prevention up by almost a further million. The council has also highlighted how it has spent extra money on tackling rough sleeping in the current year due to a n...

MORE than £9 million has been budgeted to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping in Oxford next year. Oxford City Council announced it will budget £9.1 million, an increase on the £6.3 million spent in 2019-20. As the country entered the first lockdown in March, the Government issued an ‘everyone in’ direction for councils to provide emergency housing for rough sleepers and vulnerable homeless people to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Short-term funding to provide this came f...