Beat 01
Social housing
Allocations, procurement, regeneration schemes, residents' associations. Seven years in this beat.
42 published pieces
Ongoing · since Oct 2024 · ~18 months
Where the £340m went — a year and a half of tracing the housing modernisation money.
An eighteen-month investigation into a housing-department programme that has spent a third of its budget without filing the procurement detail its own framework requires.
beats
Four beats.
Beat 02
Public procurement
Framework contracts, single-source awards, public-body spending over £25k. FOI-heavy.
34 published pieces
Beat 03
Local government
Borough-level decision-making, councillor declarations, planning committees. Council-chamber by council-chamber.
28 published pieces
Beat 04
Analysis & opinion
Long-form analysis across the other three beats, for magazine and broadsheet commissions.
19 pieces · since 2022
commissions
Recent commissions.
Mar 2026
A council housing scheme that never filed a procurement notice1,400-home regeneration programme, no procurement notice, five-year silence
The Guardian
Housing
12 min
Jan 2026
The framework that ate the budgetHow a £2.4bn framework became the default procurement route for three northern councils
TBIJ
Procurement
14 min
Nov 2025
What is planning committee chair Rhiannon Pryce declaring?Councillor's register of interests compared with her husband's companies
Tortoise
Local
9 min
Aug 2025
The long quiet of the regeneration scheme at WarpwoodResidents, delays, council statements, court filings. A seven-month chronology.
The Guardian
Housing
17 min
Apr 2025
Section 43, and the growing case for reformFOI refusals citing commercial interest tripled between 2019 and 2024
Prospect
Analysis
10 min
Jan 2025
Two boroughs, one contractor, four years of delayLong investigation into a modular-housing contractor and its public-sector client base
BBC Newsnight
Housing
TV · 14 min
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