ARK’s Market Synopsis – Impacts of COVID-19 on Low Cost Sales
Section 1 – Introduction Our Market Synopsis is produced for colleagues in councils and housing associations, so it is written with this in mind,...
RSH flexes approach to regulation in response to Coronavirus pandemic
The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has written to all registered providers of social housing setting out the changes it is making to its...
Supporting Public Authorities and Contractors under PPN 02/20
The latest Procurement Policy note (PPN 02/20) states that Public Authorities should: Pay “at risk” suppliers, until at least, the end of June Put...
A helping hand in difficult times
ARK is committed to supporting our clients, especially during these unprecedented times. Our colleagues are facing challenges in terms of their health, work and...
ARK Consultancy response to Coronavirus
Here at ARK, our priority is to ensure we provide the continuous, high quality service our customers expect, and we have now activated our...
Housing Minister announces a raft of planning reforms
Following the budget announcement last week, the Housing Minister released the ‘Planning for the future’ report including a raft of planning reforms aimed to...
Mayfield Town Centre Consultation
Welcome to the Mayfield Town Centre Community Information Page In It Together and the consultancy team (Camerons Architects and ARK Consultancy) have teamed up...
ARK Consultancy welcomes the BBC’s recently published briefing on housing
ARK Consultancy welcomes the BBC’s recently published briefing on housing looking at the key issues within our sector. The briefing focused on many of...
Sustainability is moving up the board’s agenda; what are the risks posed to Housing Associations?
We only need to look at the news to see how climate change and the environmental impacts are affecting our lives. The key message...
Our initial thinking relating to the First Homes Initiative
We were really interested to see the announcement on the 7th of February regarding the Government’s First Homes initiative. The scheme will be aimed...