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Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) are becoming an increasingly visible and often controversial feature across Havering, with residents, landlords and the council all facing very different realities as numbers continue to rise in 2025.
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Havering residents angry at blocks of flats springing up on every spare patch of land should know exactly where the pressure comes from. Housing targets for London boroughs are set by the Mayor of London through the London Plan, the capital’s strategic spatial plan produced by the Greater London Authority. The London Plan establishes ten-year minimum targets for each borough and is the starting point for what local councils must plan to deliver.
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Housing is one of the reasons I got into politics, it is important to me, it is important to my constituents, and it underpins almost every aspect of our lives.
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Havering Council has criticised the “wasteful and unnecessary drain on public resources” caused by a long-running battle to gain access to a tenant’s property for a routine electrical and asbestos safety check.
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Cash-trapped Havering Council will borrow £46million to build more than 1,000 new homes in Romford, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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Yesterday, we asked our readers if they were the Leader of the Council for the day, what changes would they make? The list of changes residents wanted to make were endless and included improving policing, repairing roads and potholes, removing the borough from the ULEZ zone and removing parking charges across the borough.
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Plans for almost 500 new homes in Havering are due to be approved this week, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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When Councillor Jackie McArdle learned that a close friend had lost their home through no fault of their own, she was heartbroken.
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Havering Council has agreed to pay more than £7,000 to a homeless mother after her family was left to live in unsafe housing writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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The London Borough of Havering has seen its population increase from around 237,200 in 2011 to 262,100 in 2021, a jump of roughly 10.5% in just a decade. Estimates suggest the number of residents may now be approaching 276,000 in 2024. This growth brings new challenges for housing, services, and infrastructure.
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St Alban’s Ward Councillor Jane Keane and Emma Hawkins Prospective Council Candidate for St Edwards Ward, are pictured here in front of the Habitat For Humanity Great Britian’s ReStore in Romford. They are shown with boxes containing unused space heaters, ready for resale in the ReStore for those struggling to heat their homes this winter. Habitat ReStore Romford is a community-focused home improvement charity shop, located at 6–18 High Street, Romford.
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An overwhelming majority of Havering residents have made their views clear — they do not want to see the borough’s Green Belt built on.
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Havering Council and Wates Residential have hit a major milestone in the borough’s 12 Estates Regeneration Programme with the completion of demolition works at Chippenham Road in Harold Hill.
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Plans have been put forward to demolish a former Romford nightclub and replace it with almost 300 homes, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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Parts of a popular Havering shopping centre could be demolished to make way for 700 new homes, writes local democracy reporter Sebastian Mann.
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Residents living in Duxbury House on Fairlane Road, Rainham, say they have had enough of the repeated lift failures in their building — after yet another breakdown left a disabled woman stranded outside with her two children for hours.
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Residents living near Petersfield Avenue yesterday celebrated a petition win. A planning application to build six homes at the rear of 55-57 Petersfield Avenue was refused.
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Following a substantial period of time last year when residents of Duxbury House on Beam Park were left without a working lift, residents have once again been forced to reach out to their local councillors after a series of dangerous incidents in the last few weeks.
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I am writing in response to your recent article detailing the motion passed at Full Council on 3rd September, led by Councillor David Taylor and supported by Labour and Independent councillors. While the headline suggests a noble cause, the narrative presented is misleading and misrepresents both the facts and the position of the Havering Residents Association (HRA).
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Urban Sketch & Legendre have launched a public consultation on plans to bring forward a new shared living scheme on the site of the former Atik nightclub in South Street, Romford. The long-derelict site is set to be transformed into modern new living accommodation, helping to regenerate this part of the town centre and provide a range of wider community benefits.
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