Housing

View article 20 of England’s largest local authority landlords call for the new government to save council homes

20 of England’s largest local authority landlords call for the new government to save council homes

Hull City Council has today joined with England’s other largest council landlords – including Southwark, Bristol, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and Dudley – to jointly publish five solutions for the new government to ‘secure the future of England’s council housing’. Back in March, Directors from this cross-party group of 20 local authorities gathered at a Summit […]

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View article Hull City Council awards money for empty homes to be brought back into use

Hull City Council awards money for empty homes to be brought back into use

Hull City Council has allocated funding to Giroscope to bring up to ten empty homes back into use as social housing. West Hull-based Giroscope, which specialises in buying and renovating long term empty homes, has received £370,000 from the Right to Buy Replacement Programme Fund.  There is also the option for further discretionary funding (up […]

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View article Trial launched to explore benefits of heat pumps for council tenants

Trial launched to explore benefits of heat pumps for council tenants

Ideal Heating has launched a heat pumps trial with Hull City Council. The Living with Heat Pumps project will explore the benefits of living in a home with an air source heat pump compared to a traditional gas boiler. Ideal Heating has worked with Hull City Council and regional net zero campaign, Oh Yes! Net […]

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View article Entries open for the 2024 Hull City Council Tenants Gardening Competition

Entries open for the 2024 Hull City Council Tenants Gardening Competition

“Spring is sprung, the grass has riz,” according to poet Ogden Nash, so what better time than the first day of spring (20 March) to declare that entries to the 2024 Hull City Council’s Tenants Gardening Competition are open. Since the competition launched in 2017 it has gone from strength to strength, with the number of […]

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View article Share your views on proposed new affordable housing developments

Share your views on proposed new affordable housing developments

Hull City Council has arranged three drop-in sessions for residents to see the early feasibility work for the new housing developments planned on the sites of Boothferry Flats, the Torpoint Drive, Millport Drive and Woolwich Drive tower blocks; Henson Villas in Pearson Park, and Selworthy Close, a brownfield site between Minehead and Holwell Roads. The […]

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View article Colonial Street subject to archaeological dig as development progresses

Colonial Street subject to archaeological dig as development progresses

Hull City Council is carrying out preliminary archaeological excavations on Colonial Street as an important precursor for the site’s planned redevelopment. The land to the rear of St Stephen’s Shopping Centre is currently under examination to establish the history of the site and whether it retains any archaeological interest. The Colonial Street site is allocated […]

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View article Devolution: Promoting economic inclusivity

Devolution: Promoting economic inclusivity

Hull City Council is committed to promoting economic inclusivity and this is part of the Hull and East Yorkshire devolution proposal. Promoting economic inclusivity could provide decent homes for all and economic opportunities for the most deprived communities. This could help to ensure the wider community benefits from and contributes to the growth and prosperity […]

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View article Garden Village residents’ view sought over conservation area proposals

Garden Village residents’ view sought over conservation area proposals

Residents of Garden Village will be asked for their views on proposed changes to its conservation area as a public consultation begins tomorrow. Hull City Council’s proposals include the adoption of a new Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan (CAMP) and the adoption of new article 4 directions concerning cross overs and hardstanding areas. […]

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View article Archaeological dig sees East Bank Urban Village take a step forward

Archaeological dig sees East Bank Urban Village take a step forward

An archaeological dig is taking place this week on the former Clarence Mill site as the next phase of the East Bank Urban Village project gets underway. The exploratory works will be undertaken by Humber Field Archaeology and are expected to last up to two weeks. This statutory investigation is taking place so that Hull […]

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