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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 these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for...

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 scheme is similar to Housing First, where a stable home is given to a vulnerable person who wants a...

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 symbolises the problem we have more than this £100,000 figure. It costs this much because the buildi...

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 symbolises the problem we have more than this £100,000 figure. It costs this much because the buildi...

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 the Homelessness Prevention Grant that will be made available to local authorities in 2021/22 to suppo...