Housing Symposium 2025

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Event summary

Times are very challenging in the council housing finance world. Whether it’s financial pressures on the HRA, rising demands for repairs, or whether it’s the progress of consumer standards inspections one year on from their introduction, our Housing Finance Symposium is a timely opportunity to reflect on the agenda for the HRA in the run up to the Spending Review in the spring.

Date

08 May 2025
Starts: 11:00
Ends: 13:00

Location

online

Standard price

£100.00 excl VAT

Network Member Price

£75.00 excl VAT

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About this event

We’ll hear from MHCLG, the Regulator and CPIFA’s HAN adviser on the very latest around the factors influencing how housing and finance professionals can prepare effectively for the new settlement, whether it’s future rent policy, the future approach to AHP grant, or the long-awaited update to the Decent Homes Standard.  

There’s plenty to talk about as you begin to think about the next budget and business planning round, which is likely to be just as challenging, if not more, than the last one.

Who should attend?

  • Senior managers and directors in housing
  • Housing finance specialists in HRA authorities
  • HRA accountants and HRA finance business partners

CPD hours

This carries two CPD hours.

Topics

  • Financial management
  • / Financial reporting
  • / Housing
  • / Local government
  • / Property

Speaker - Mark Poppy, BA (Hons), MBA

Mark Poppy

Mark has an MBA and is an alumni of the Ashridge Business School Advanced Leadership Programme. He has worked at a senior level in both the public and private sector as well as a government backed advisory company. He has extensive experience of public-private partnerships and the commercialisation of public services. He manages CIPFA’s property training programmes and within the team on wider property issues throughout the UK.

Speaker - Steve Partridge, Director, Savills Housing Consultancy

Steve Partridge, CPFA, is a director at Savills Housing Consultancy. Steve is a senior leader and highly regarded national expert in housing finance with over 25 years’ experience in the public and private sectors of business planning, investment appraisal, financing and the development of new homes. Steve specialises in working with housing providers to build their financial capacity, to assess options for, and then implement the delivery of new and better housing.