The Housing Platform

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 we triumphed over in the last 12 months and what is on the horizon? What part will the combined authorities play in affordable housing across the Midlands? What might delay the spending of the £39bn afforded to the sector for the next ten years?

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 homes. The site is called Browns Lane and it’s in Tamworth in Staffordshire. It’s a site that shows that Platform is keen on changing how we approach securing land for affordable housing, in a way that we hope can accelerate what we deliver and exceed our previous standards of the places we create.  Hosted by Richard Hurst, communications business partner, we asked members of the land and new business team to join us on a sunny April morning to explain to you just what this new approach means...

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 talked about artificial intelligence, and the possibilities it has in changing our sector for the better. The term is being banded around a lot at the moment...sometimes a bit too hastily to attract attention with then little of what we know as AI at the heart of it.  On day 3 of the conference, we took 15 minutes to sit down with Platform’s CIO Jon Cocker and one of our non-exec board members, Heena Prajapat to talk about it and ask, is it time to redefine AI already??? If you’ve got your own questions, send them to podcasts@platfromhg.com [podcasts@platfromhg.com] and we can put them to Jon and Heena.  This Housing Platform podcast is worth subscribing to for our thoughts on many different sector topics as well as sharing practices and experiences to help improve what we do for our customers.

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 Experience. There's also advice and thoughts from colleagues who look after our apprentices and leaders about what the future of apprenticeships looks like. Thanks to Linda Gittings and Ellie Steel as well as Ground Maintenance apprentice Tyler Bergin-Ruff for their contributions. You can find out more at Apprenticeships | Platform Housing Group [https://www.platformhg.com/apprenticeships]

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 on the stakeholders that need to stand up and deliver in the face of one of housing's biggest challenges to date. To find out more about Platform Housing, go to our website www.platformhg.com.