All articles by Carl Brown – Page 2
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NewsReeves reportedly drawing up plans for ‘housing bank’ and £25bn Affordable Homes Programme
Homes England to be redesignated as public finance institution to allow it to create financial assets and lower capital costs for developers
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NewsGovernment unveils plans to simplify planning and biodiversity rules for smaller housing sites
MHCLG also publishes consultation paper on plans to delegate most planning approvals to council officers
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NewsHousebuilders will face ‘delayed homes penalty’ if they fail to build to promised timeframes, Rayner announces
New planning reform working paper will set out latest proposals in bid to hit 1.5m homes target
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NewsHousing planning applications at their ‘highest for three years’
Figures from consultancy show 44% increase year-on-year in first quarter
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NewsGovernment allocates £630m to boost energy efficiency in public buildings
Latest funding awards under Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme confirmed
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NewsKhan pledges to release green belt for housebuilding under new London Plan
Mayor of London shifts from brownfield-only focus as City Hall aims for 880,000 new homes over 10 years
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NewsHomes England to acquire BDP and Heatherwick’s stalled 1000-home Nottingham site
Project will see redevelopment of the site which houses the partially-demolished Broad Marsh shopping centre
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NewsNPPF changes will result in 1.3 million homes built by the end of the parliament, OBR forecasts
Housebuilding to exceed 300,000 homes a year by 2029/30, excluding impact of forthcoming Affordable Homes Programme
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NewsChurch of England completes registration of housing association
Church Housing Association is now a registered provider of social housing
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NewsReeves announces extra £2bn for affordable homes
Sector welcomes grant funding, which is intended as a ’bridge’ between current programme and future grant to be announced in June
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NewsGreen light for local architect’s Southampton marina scheme
HGP Architects’ scheme will not include affordable housing following viability assessment
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NewsPRP gets green light for Watford tower scheme
Police station and magistrates court to be replaced with three-block mixed-use scheme
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NewsThe government’s response to the Grenfell Inquiry: Key proposals at a glance
Ministers have today published their long-awaited plan in response to the inquiry into the Grenfell fire, which claimed 72 lives in 2017. Here is a guide to the key proposals.
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NewsNew legislation on £400bn public procurement spend comes into force
Major shake-up of the way public bodies purchase goods and services starts today
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NewsRayner announces £300m boost for affordable housing delivery
MHCLG says latest funding will deliver 2,800 homes, with half for social rent
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NewsLords committee finds grey belt policy ‘unlikely to have significant impact’ on housebuilding
Lord Moylan warns Angela Rayner that policy has been “rushed and incoherent”
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NewsReeves promises not to ‘renege’ on building safety regulation as 90 new high-rise projects held up by rules
Work on more than 700 blocks are waiting on design approval from regulator under Building Safety Act, new figures show
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NewsMinisters pledge to double the size of the Oxford-Cambridge economy in boost for life sciences sector
Initiative has potential to add £78bn in GDP to UK economy
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NewsStreeting revises timetable for New Hospital Programme with five schemes facing delay until 2039
Health secretary contrasts “honest, realistic, deliverable timetable” to Boris Johnson’s original pledge
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NewsGreen light for Grimshaw and Figure Ground’s 10,000-home ‘garden town’ near Harlow
Places for People and Taylor Wimpey get go ahead after terms of section 106 deal agreed by East Hertfordshire Council