Housing Solicitors

Portsmouth City Council has announced that it is building more than 200 new homes to ease housing waiting lists and generate rental income.

The council says the work is part of the most ambitious council home building project in Portsmouth since the Second World War.

The council will complete 16 new flats in Winston Churchill Avenue in the next couple of months – and work is also sue to start on 60 new homes on the site of the old Somerstown Health Centre in Blackfriars Close.

Planning permission has been granted for 23 flats on the site of the old Southsea Community Centre in Kings Street, said the council – and for three sites on land the council owns in Havant, totalling another 95 homes.

The home building programme is taking place alongside an ambitious supported housing building scheme, which has seen the council open three new developments in Portsmouth – with three other adult supported living facilities in the pipeline, providing a total of 60 new bedrooms in the city.

Leader of the council, Councillor Donna Jones, said:

“These new homes will make a real difference to people's lives. We have a responsibility to provide good quality housing options for local people and we take that responsibility seriously.

“There are very few local authorities in the country building housing at the same rate as us – and we are proud to be leading the way, because it shows our commitment to making sure that people have the high-quality local homes they need.”

Duncan Lewis Housing Solicitors

Duncan Lewis housing solicitors can advise on a wide range of housing law, including advising developers and self builders on planning permissions and planning appeals.

There are Duncan Lewis offices across England and Wales and our housing team is also able to advise on:

• Debt management for homeowners


• Disrepair of rented property


• Housing Benefit


• Housing possession


• Landlords’ obligations


• Landlord and tenant disputes


• Lease extensions


• Local Authority housing


• Mortgage repossession


• Notice to quit


• Nuisance neighbours


• Right to Buy


• Right to Rent checks


• Tenancy agreements


• Unlawful eviction.