As reported in the Evening Standard and City AM, today the Housing Secretary has directed the Mayor to conduct a review of London Plan Policies. The review aims to boost housing delivery in London and will focus on building on …
There has been widespread coverage ahead of the Birmingham City Council budget meeting today, which is expected to approve cuts to local services today to save £300m. There are numerous pieces of coverage with the story running on BBC Radio …
The Guardian's article published online and p10 today (Monday, 4 March 2024) claims that less than 20% of levelling up projects have completed in England. This is inaccurate as it only focuses on one strand of funding from the …
This morning we published quarterly statistics showing a rise in homelessness and rough sleeping and an increase in households in temporary accommodation. Whilst we have made good progress and rough sleeping remains below pre-pandemic levels, there is more work to …
There has been significant coverage of the publication of the Competition and Markets Authority’s final report on the UK housebuilding market study. The full-market study, supported by the Housing Secretary Michael Gove, was launched in February 2023 and the final …
There has been widespread coverage across national and regional media of new changes to short-term lets rules. Under the reforms councils will be given greater power to control short-term lets by making them subject to the planning process. Meanwhile, a …
While we are pleased that today’s leading article in the Times leading article welcomes Tuesday’s announcement to shake-up planning rules to boost housebuilding on brownfield sites, we disagree with its assessment that it does not go far enough to deliver …
There has been widespread coverage across national papers and broadcasters about our package of housing announcements. This includes a ‘brownfield first’ approach delivering new homes and changes to Permitted Development Rights to empower people to extend their homes outwards and …
Our announcement that the legislation for a new £1.4billion devolution deal for the North East was laid in Parliament has been celebrated in regional media. This significant milestone which brings the North East of England one step closer to electing …
There is significant reporting on the announcement of new social housing reforms to make the system fairer and not available to those who abuse it. The measures proposed in the new DLUHC consultation could ban those who blight communities and …