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29 Nov 19
The government must remove the hurdles it has set down if it is serious about tackling the escalating housing crisis London is facing, writes Lewisham mayor Damien Egan.
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29 Oct 19
The Public Works Loan Board interest rate hike will not have a “significant impact” on council house building, the communities secretary has told MPs.
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7 Nov 18
A PF snapshot survey has revealed 93% of councils across England are planning to borrow more against their housing revenue account now the cap has been lifted.
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22 Jan 18
The government cannot meet its housebuilding targets unless it scraps the borrowing cap on local authority housing revenue accounts to “unleash” council housebuilding, MPs have said.
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24 Aug 17
New home starts in the past year have reached their highest level since the slump of 2009, according to housebuilding statistics issued by the Department for Communities & Local Government.
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18 Aug 17
The government must aid a ‘renaissance in council housebuilding’ to help improve the quality of new homes, the Local Government Association said today.
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13 Jul 17
February’s housing white paper “signalled government has started to understand some of the key issues” that hold back housing delivery, CIPFA conference heard from Eamonn Boylan,...
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3 Apr 17
In a bid to boost home building, councils will have to produce up-to-date registers of brownfield sites in their areas, the government has announced.
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24 Oct 16
With developers and private landlords failing to provide enough suitable homes, councils are setting up housing companies to build homes of different tenures and costs
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14 Oct 16
An extra £1m has been put behind the garden villages programme, taking the total government funding on offer to £7m.
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10 Oct 16
Ministers must use the Autumn Statement to turn party conference pledges on housing into a reality, the Chartered Institute of Housing has said today.
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4 Oct 16
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has indicated that the government will look to provide greater flexibility in how funding to support affordable homes can be used.
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3 Oct 16
The government is to create a £3bn housebuilding fund and directly commission homes on public sector land as part of plans to build more than 25,000 new homes before 2020, ministers have said.
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19 Sep 16
Ministers have been urged to provide young people who are renting with mortgage deposits in order to enable them to get onto the property ladder, a report by the think-tank Localis has said.
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11 Aug 16
Just 17% of council homes sold under the Right to Buy scheme in 2015-16 were replaced, an analysis by the Local Government Association has found.
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2 Aug 16
Home ownership in England has fallen to a level last seen in 1986 thanks to rising housing costs and static wages, an analysis by the Resolution Foundation has found.
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28 Jul 16
Councils should be reinstated as major builders of affordable housing to assuage the deepening housing crisis, a report by the Local Government Association has argued.
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7 Jan 16
Councils have called for additional powers to charge developers council tax if they let planning permission expire without completing construction of new homes.
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4 Jan 16
The government is to directly commission the construction of thousands of new homes on public land for the first time in almost 30 years.
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8 Dec 15
The Department for Communities and Local Government has proposed relaxing planning rules to allow for ‘Starter Homes’ to be built on greenbelt land.
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25 Nov 15
George Osborne used his Autumn Statement and Spending Review to double the government’s housebuilding budget and increase investment in infrastructure.
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9 Oct 15
Housing is a political priority for the government, but it is vital that ministers do not just focus on homes to buy. Boosting supply across all tenures can help people choose the right option for...
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24 Sep 15
A government target to build over 100,000 homes on public land represented “wishful thinking dressed up as public policy”, the Public Accounts Committee has said today, and ministers have no record...
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10 Jul 15
Councils that fail to produce local housing and commercial development plans could be forced to do so by the local government secretary Greg Clark, according to proposals in the Treasury’s national...
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3 Apr 15
A government-backed scheme to build 100,000 new homes for first-time buyers, by exempting developers from section 106 planning agreements, has received interest from over 50,000 people.
29 Nov 19The government must remove the hurdles it has set down if it is serious about tackling the escalating housing crisis London is facing, writes Lewisham mayor Damien Egan.
7 Nov 18A PF snapshot survey has revealed 93% of councils across England are planning to borrow more against their housing revenue account now the cap has been lifted.
13 Jul 17February’s housing white paper “signalled government has started to understand some of the key issues” that hold back housing delivery, CIPFA conference heard from Eamonn Boylan,...
3 Apr 17In a bid to boost home building, councils will have to produce up-to-date registers of brownfield sites in their areas, the government has announced.
24 Oct 16With developers and private landlords failing to provide enough suitable homes, councils are setting up housing companies to build homes of different tenures and costs
14 Oct 16An extra £1m has been put behind the garden villages programme, taking the total government funding on offer to £7m.
4 Oct 16Housing minister Gavin Barwell has indicated that the government will look to provide greater flexibility in how funding to support affordable homes can be used.
3 Oct 16The government is to create a £3bn housebuilding fund and directly commission homes on public sector land as part of plans to build more than 25,000 new homes before 2020, ministers have said.
19 Sep 16Ministers have been urged to provide young people who are renting with mortgage deposits in order to enable them to get onto the property ladder, a report by the think-tank Localis has said.
2 Aug 16Home ownership in England has fallen to a level last seen in 1986 thanks to rising housing costs and static wages, an analysis by the Resolution Foundation has found.
7 Jan 16Councils have called for additional powers to charge developers council tax if they let planning permission expire without completing construction of new homes.
8 Dec 15The Department for Communities and Local Government has proposed relaxing planning rules to allow for ‘Starter Homes’ to be built on greenbelt land.
9 Oct 15Housing is a political priority for the government, but it is vital that ministers do not just focus on homes to buy. Boosting supply across all tenures can help people choose the right option for...
3 Apr 15A government-backed scheme to build 100,000 new homes for first-time buyers, by exempting developers from section 106 planning agreements, has received interest from over 50,000 people.
