There are many villages scattered across Essex, but the market town of Rayleigh is home to the UK's smallest council house.

The historic Little John bell at the top of Nottingham Council House has fallen silent for two months while the near 100-year-old clock is serviced to fix ‘chiming issues’. A senior Nottingham ...

The row centres on a £100 million Home Office-funded pilot, which enables councils to acquire and refurbish around 900 ...

We are in the depths of the worst housing crisis since the Second World War, but there is a solution which has worked before and will work again – building council housing. Today, to push the issue ...

Council tenants in Stoke -on-Trent will see their rents go up by 4.8 per cent from April. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is ...

Three people have spoken to the BBC about their long wait for social housing People who have spent several years on a local authority waiting list have told the BBC they have lost hope in getting a ...

The BBC has announced new investigative documentary series Council House Crackdown. The five-part series will take a closer look at Britain's social housing crisis and explore council house fraud.

A MUM has shown off her council house transformation after living in the space for seven months. Paige Brill, a mum-of-two living in Northamptonshire took to social media to show people how she made ...

There's nothing like making over a home, and a single mother recently confessed that hard work can really pay off quickly when it comes to redecorating a bathroom. The woman, who hasn't been named, ...

A WOMAN has been slammed as ‘ungrateful’ after getting the keys to her council house. The woman had been given the council house just before Christmas and was told it was ready to move in. Please ...

Number 8 Frobisher Drive appears to be an ordinary house on an ordinary road in Swindon. Sitting at the end of a terrace of four houses behind a grass verge, its pitched roof, dark orange bricks and ...