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The Housing Platform
by Platform Housing Group
As one of the UK's biggest providers of affordable and social housing, Platform Housing Group will be sharing stories from our organisation through colleagues and customers to contribute to current discussions around the UK housing sector.
Episodes
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Biggest Builders 2025 - Are we ready to deliver what the spending review is asking of us?
At the Housing 2025 conference in Manchester, join members of Platform Housing Group's development team and external partners Lovell Partnerships to discuss the future of affordable housing delivery off the back of the Biggest Builders survey and the government spending review. What issues have…
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Taking on more risk in the land sector
Welcome to the Housing Platform, from Platform Housing Group. We’re a large, registered provider of social housing, and we manage over 50,000 homes across the Midlands. In this episode, you join us in the middle of a very important field...one where we’ll soon start building over 200 affordable...
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Time to redefine AI?
In March, we attended the Housing Technology conference in Nottingham, where professionals from across the tech and housing sectors came together for seminars, exhibitions and vital networking to really drill into their problems and solutions. As you can imagine, a hefty section of the conference...
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The Recipe for Successful Apprenticeships
As part of February's National Apprentice Week, hear from apprentices at Platform Housing Group about how they are finding the programme, why they chose it and whether they'd recommend it to others. Hear from apprentices in Grounds Maintenance, Procurement, Gas Engineering, Finance and Customer...
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Housing Matters - Can we hit housing targets and deliver high quality at the same time?
The latest targets for delivery of affordable housing are high and present a challenge for the sector. Combined with the need to deliver new standards and Platform's desire to provide high quality homes, how can it all be done together. Hear from Platform's Group Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude…
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Housing Matters - Social Rent
Following discussions on Section 106 and Shared Ownership, the next topic we want to tackle is Social Rent. Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude discusses wow social rent contributes to the affordable landscape – compared to other tenures. We'll also ask how important is it to Platform across our...
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Housing Matters - The Labour Party Conference 2024
Here we bring you highlights of Platform's fringe session at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool in September. The aim was to give more exposure to shared ownership as a tenure and reinforce how vital it would be to helping to solve the housing crisis. Chaired by Rhys Moore Executive…
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Housing Matters - Section 106
Welcome back to Housing Matters As part of our podcast called The Housing Platform, these special episodes by Group Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude will address some of the issues in the sector from Platform’s perspective. In this episode, we'll discuss section 106 and changing attitudes towards...
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Housing Matters - Shared Ownership
Welcome to Housing Matters As part of our podcast called The Housing Platform, these special episodes by Group Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude will address some of the issues in the sector from Platform’s perspective. In this episode, we'll discuss the tenure of shared ownership, why it's under...
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Biggest Builders Survey 2024
Join Platform Housing as we discuss the results of Inside Housing's Biggest Builder's survey, where the group placed very well following some great work from the teams involved with Growth and Development. Analysing all the results are Group Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude, Executive Director of...
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UKREiiF special - Redefining Partnerships to Solve the Housing Crisis
At this year's UKREiiF conference in Leeds, Platform hosted a key note session about how we feel partnerships should change to accelerate delivery of affordable housing. Joining Platform's Executive Director of Growth and Development Gerraint Oakley were: Laura Shoaf CBE - Chief Executive of the...
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What's in store for Platform's new Trainee Board?
In this episode we're focusing on governance and the future of housing boards. At Platform, we're extremely proud of our Trainee Board programme and we've just recruited 5 new members to embark on the two-year course to learn everything there is to know about being on a board. Hear from the five...
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A story about surviving stalking
As part of National Stalking Awareness Week 2024, we put a call out to colleagues asking if they had experienced stalking or knew someone who had and Joanna Selby, one of our Customer Engagement Officers, bravely answered this call. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men have been stalked at some point in...
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Artificial Intelligence's role in UK Housing
At the start of 2024, Platform Housing have been talking to the sector about the opportunities of using Artificial Intelligence in Housing. We've also won two awards for our work using AI to improve tenant services. At conferences across the Midlands, the information team have held workshops and...
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Celebrating apprentices in the housing sector
Apprenticeships continue to grow as a career path for young people to take when they leave school. The appeal of being able to ‘earn while you learn’, combined with the increasing costs of higher education have seen more people embark on them as a way to start a career. The housing sector is one...
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Facing the maintenance challenges of winter
Winter has arrived and social housing faces one of its toughest periods for managing repairs and maintenance of their properties in order to ensure customers have a warm, safe home. With the problems presented from the risk of damp and condensation mould and with the backdrop of tightened…
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Domestic Abuse - A Survivors Story
Welcome to our special podcast supporting the national campaign of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. In this episode, one of our very own domestic abuse survivors, Karen from Platform's Neigbourhoods team, bravely tells her story in the hope it will help others. Host Christine...
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Turning Up the Customer Voice
It’s clear that housing associations need to find new ways to engage with their customers. Recommendations by the Better Social Housing review and the upcoming introduction of Tenant Satifaction Measures are placing more emphasis on the customer’s experience of the service they receive from their...
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Diversity in Housing Boardrooms with Lara Oyedele
In this episode of The Housing Platform, we’re talking about diversity in the housing sector with Lara Oyedele. Lara paid a visit to the offices of Platform Housing Group to deliver a talk around her campaign as president of the Chartered Institute of Housing, In My Shoes. It was fascinating to...
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Developing affordable homes with 'zero bills'.
The UK Housing Sector is exploring all sorts of ways to develop new homes that will be energy-efficient for their customers. As Platform continues it's ambitious build programme with 1,300 homes started between 2023 and 2024, one way some of these units could cost customers less is using Octopus...
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Shouting About Shared Ownership - The stigmas
For more and more people Shared Ownership is becoming one of the most accessible ways to own their own home and it might help you. Just as it's evolving to allow more people to use it as a way onto the property ladder, it's picked up a few naysayers too, so at Platform Housing Group, we wanted to...
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Shouting About Shared Ownership - The opportunity
For more and more people Shared Ownership is becoming one of the most accessible ways to own their own home and it might help you. Just as it's evolving to allow more people to use it as a way onto the property ladder, it's picked up a few naysayers too, so at Platform Housing Group, we wanted to...
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Shouting About Shared Ownership - Explaining it...
For more and more people Shared Ownership is becoming one of the most accessible ways to own their own home and it might help you. Just as it's evolving to allow more people to use it as a way onto the property ladder, it's picked up a few naysayers too, so at Platform Housing Group, we wanted to...
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The Strategic Partnership with Homes England
In this podcast we’re talking with Homes England about their strategic partnerships with housing associations and how that relationship has developed and changed over the last couple of years. Registered providers of affordable housing like Platform work with Homes England to provide grant…
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Let's not be antisocial...meet our ASB Apprentice
Living with Antisocial Behaviour (ASB), been a victim, been a perpetrator, or just want to know what ASB is and how it can be dealt with...our Community Safety team are here to tell you more about what they do and we also meet our new ASB Apprentice and how she is being helped by Resolve, a group...
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10 minutes on...Inside Housings' Biggest Builders survey
It’s the end of June and recently Inside Housing released their annual survey of the sector’s biggest builders and once again Platform have maintained a strong position near the top of the Big 50. Our 1,304 starts on site puts us in the Top 10 of the developers whilst the pipeline statistics for...
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10 minutes on...Business Continuity Week
In this special podcast, we’re talking about our activity for Business Continuity Week with our Risk and Compliance Business Partner, Trishna Tripuraneni. We’re discussing how different elements of the business are affected by different events. We’ll also cover the different themes of Business...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
As one of the UK's biggest providers of affordable and social housing, Platform Housing Group will be sharing stories from our organisation through colleagues and customers to contribute to current discussions around the UK housing sector.
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As one of the UK's biggest providers of affordable and social housing, Platform Housing Group will be sharing stories from our organisation through colleagues and customers to contribute to current discussions around the UK housing sector.
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