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Affordable housing

Budget boost for housing, local growth and remediation

mhclgpress, 1 November 2024 - Affordable housing, Building safety, Council finance, Devolution, Homelessness, Housing, Local government

The Chancellor has set out a Budget to fix the foundations by providing a significant boost for housebuilding, backing projects to support local growth and supporting devolution.  This week’s budget invests in local government and reaffirmed the government’s commitment to …

Our plan to get Britain Building again

mhclgpress, 31 July 2024 - Affordable housing, Housing, Planning

Yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister launched the new National Planning Policy Framework which will increase housing targets to get Britain building again. We will also begin work today on a generation of new towns. The Deputy Prime Minister has appointed …

LGA analysis of affordable housing

dluhccomms, 7 October 2020 - Affordable housing, Planning

The Local Government Association (LGA) has made a statement today suggesting that government proposals to exempt small building sites from paying ‘section 106’ contributions would have cost 30,000 affordable homes over the last 5 years. These claims are fundamentally flawed. …

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