The Housing Platform

Platform Housing Group

As one of the UK's biggest providers of affordable and social housing, Platform Housing Group will be sharing stories from our organisation through colleagues and customers to contribute to current discussions around the UK housing sector.

  1. Biggest Builders 2025 - Are we ready to deliver what the spending review is asking of us?

    27/06/2025

    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?

    26 min
  2. Taking on more risk in the land sector

    15/04/2025

    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...

    16 min
  3. Time to redefine AI?

    24/03/2025

    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 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.

    19 min
  4. The Recipe for Successful Apprenticeships

    09/02/2025

    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

    24 min
  5. Housing Matters - Can we hit housing targets and deliver high quality at the same time?

    08/11/2024

    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.

    12 min
  6. Housing Matters - Social Rent

    10/10/2024

    Housing Matters - Social Rent

    Following discussions on Section 106 and Shared Ownership, the next topic we want to tackle is Social Rent. Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude discusses wow social rent contributes to the affordable landscape – compared to other tenures. We'll also ask how important is it to Platform across our geography and look at why people are calling for more to built in particular? Finally, we also cover why is it dangerous to sacrifice other tenures like Shared Ownership for building more social rent.

    14 min
  7. Housing Matters - The Labour Party Conference 2024

    03/10/2024

    Housing Matters - The Labour Party Conference 2024

    Here we bring you highlights of Platform's fringe session at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool in September. The aim was to give more exposure to shared ownership as a tenure and reinforce how vital it would be to helping to solve the housing crisis.  Chaired by Rhys Moore Executive Director of Impact at the National Housing Federation, Platform’s Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude was joined by Ann Santry, Chair of the Shared Ownership Council, Andrew Taylor, Group Planning Director at developer Vistry Partnerships and Cllr Sarah Williams Deputy Leader at Harringay and member for Housing and Planning.  This podcast brings you highlights of the speakers addressing the floor and answering questions the audience put across.

    37 min
  8. Housing Matters - Section 106

    09/09/2024

    Housing Matters - Section 106

    Welcome back to Housing Matters As part of our podcast called The Housing Platform, these special episodes by Group Chief Executive Elizabeth Froude will address some of the issues in the sector from Platform’s perspective. In this episode, we'll discuss section 106 and changing attitudes towards it as a way of delivering high quality housing solutions. We'll look at the current sentiments towards it and what the future holds. Remember you can find us on linkedin or at platformhg.com if you want to engage further.  There are a whole host of other topics we’ll be covering including our previous episode which looked at Shared Ownership, and our upcoming discussion about social rent. Make sure you are subscribed to our podcast...and keep an eye out for other Housing Matters editions of ‘the Housing Platform’.

    15 min
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As one of the UK's biggest providers of affordable and social housing, Platform Housing Group will be sharing stories from our organisation through colleagues and customers to contribute to current discussions around the UK housing sector.

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  • Creator
    Platform Housing Group
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 Platform Housing Group
  • Show Website
    The Housing Platform