There has been widespread, national print and broadcast coverage, alongside extensive positive stakeholder reaction, to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s announcement to speed up housebuilding with a default ‘yes’ for new homes around well-connected train stations, measures …
There has been widespread national and regional coverage about our announcement today setting out further details of the historic £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme as well as freeing up £150 million from the Brownfield Housing Fund. Coverage across …
There has been media coverage today questioning whether the government’s 1.5 million homes target is achievable and concerns about the OBR forecast on housebuilding being too optimistic. From the outset the government has been clear this is a stretching but …
This week the Housing Secretary, Steve Reed, brought together key developers and housebuilders, alongside Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook, to work in partnership with industry leaders to ramp up housebuilding. Discussions focused on tackling the remaining barriers, including complex planning processes, …
Today we announced new measures to streamline complex planning rules, ease onerous regulatory burdens, and provide financial firepower to smaller housebuilders. These new reforms across land, regulation and finance will support them to play a vital role in delivering 1.5 …
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 …