A team of housing experts from SDS has raised over £2,200 for Shooting Star Chase, the children’s hospice charity. Over an intense, energy-sapping 24 hours Phil Shelton, CEO of Cranleigh-based SDS, led his colleagues to the top of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon after weeks of training. They scaled Ben Nevis in three…
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Death of SDS founder David Shelton
We are sad to report the death of David Shelton, the founder and chairman of Shelton Development Services (SDS), at the age of 66. Shelton started SDS from a spare bedroom in 1994, helping property developers and housing providers with land acquisition, financial viability, and legal and planning issues. He created the development appraisal software…
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You’re hired – SDS takes on apprentices
SDS is celebrating the success of its four apprentices after two years. SDS is a great supporter of the apprentices programme as well as finding it the ideal way to lower the average age of the office. Thomas Hill is now fully employed as a junior developer, coding and testing software. He said, “Working in…
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How to help finance house building and fight the housing crisis
The Prime Minister may have committed to building one million new homes by 2020, but how will these be funded? The Welfare Reform Act announced in the summer forces deflation into business plans barely a year after the government ‘guaranteed’ 10 years’ worth of inflation. Over the last five years, politicians have been less concerned…
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Problems with Right to Buy
Sir – As the election approaches, another day, another promise. The Conservative’s manifesto commitment to give housing association tenants the Right to Buy (RTB) was launched with great fanfare and certainly hit the headlines. But it will also hit very substantial obstacles if the Tories win. They were clearly wooing ‘hard-working’ people in an attempt…
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Are housing providers losing their appetite to develop?
Sir – At the time of writing (early August 2014), the Homes and Communities Agency had just allocated more than half of its £1.7 billion grant funding for the 2015-2018 affordable homes programme and it’s clear that some of the biggest landlords are shrinking their bids by between a half and two-thirds of their previous…
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