Housing Associations have been warned that they must “get their act together” and comply with Housing Corporation guidance on partnering with contractors, or else face losing their funding.
The warning came as a parting shot from the former chairman of the Strategic Forum for Construction, Sir John Egan.

At the launch last week of the Forum’s latest report, Accelerating Change, Egan said: “Housing associations should get their act together and get construction charter client status, otherwise they will lose their [ADP] funding.”

After Egan’s report Rethinking Construction in 1998, the Housing Corporation stipulated that developing housing associations must express an interest to attain construction client charter status by April 2003. Associations that failed to do so would ultimately have funding for their development programmes cut. Only a handful of RSLs have attained the status.

n Peter Rogers, director and co-founder of developer Stanhope, was last week appointed as the new chairman of the Strategic Forum for Construction, replacing Sir John Egan.

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Housing Today