The Chartered Institute of Housing is to half student membership fees next year but denied the move was a bid to reverse falling membership.

As of 2003, annual student membership fees will be slashed from £58 to £25 with entrance fees abolished. But fees for senior members are set to increase.

Members will be asked to vote on the restructuring proposals at the institute’s annual conference in Harrogate next week.Director of professional development Martin Winn said there was no drop in membership and student fees had been halved because they were “a problem for people starting out”.

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Housing Today