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10 announcements, last updated on 16 October 2026.
Highland Council planners recommended approval of 49 homes near Muir of Ord. Forty would first house workers on SSEN Transmission's grid upgrade, at most three to a home. Twenty would pass to the council as permanent affordable homes after the fourth year.
The plan sets out five workstreams: more key worker homes in the council's regeneration programme, reformed intermediate allocations, exploring planning changes to raise intermediate supply, a relaunched intermediate offer with partners, and lobbying the Mayor to set eligibility against central London costs. The council said there would also be chances to review the key worker definition.
Planning permission has been granted for 264 rented key worker homes and 20 shared ownership homes on the former YMCA site beside the hospital. The permission followed completion of the section 106 agreement. Hospital staff will have priority, and teachers, police officers, and other key workers will also be eligible.
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has bought 110 homes from their Clapham Park joint venture with Vistry. Of these, 91 will be let at Key Worker Living Rent and 19 sold for shared ownership, within a regeneration of more than 2,500 new homes.
Planning permission has been granted for 152 Key Worker Living Rent homes and a community centre at Abbey Street, SE1, on council land, with Bouygues UK as developer and GLA grant funding. The council describes it as the first scheme under the GLA policy. Completion is targeted for 2030.
Southwark Council is consulting the market on a development partner to design, build, and operate 100 per cent affordable key worker housing on two sites. The partner would manage the homes through a registered provider for the life of the lease. The notice does not start a formal procurement.
DHSC will work with selected pilot trusts on a concessionary financial route to investor-led keyworker housing on NHS land. National guidance and frameworks would follow a successful trial. Launch coverage reports that trusts would lease land to developers and retain ownership.
HLM Architects has published designs for a nine-storey block of studios on Wishart Street, beside Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The block would be aimed at newly qualified nurses, with rents set as a share of pay. The developer is a joint venture of Cedarstone Capital and Pinnacle.
Haringey Council's Cabinet agreed on 10 March 2026 to buy 565 homes on Tottenham High Road and White Hart Lane. Of these, 351 will be let at council rent and 214 at Key Worker Living Rent, capped at 40 per cent of average local key worker household income.
The Mayor confirmed Key Worker Living Rent, with a target of at least 6,000 starts by 2030. The practice note and consultation report were published alongside. Rents and service charges are set from 40 per cent of key workers' average net household income.