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23 Oct 14
Limited fiscal autonomy for local government contributes to the under-supply of housing across England, according to an analysis undertaken for the Institute for Government.
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23 Oct 14
Housing in England has been deemed inadequate for an ageing population by the think-tank IPPR North.
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20 Oct 14
Britain is on the brink of becoming a ‘permanently divided’ nation, with increasing numbers of people trapped in low paying jobs, shut out of the housing market and hurt by public spending cuts, the...
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16 Oct 14
Efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions to tackle fraud and error in the payment of Housing Benefit has not provided value for money and overpayments represent an escalating problem, the...
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16 Oct 14
Local authorities often offer little or no help to homeless people according to undercover research into council provision across England by from charity Crisis.
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15 Oct 14
A future Labour government will require councils to produce homebuilding plans for their area and allocate enough land to meet local needs, Ed Miliband has announced.
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10 Oct 14
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has revealed that £178m of Housing Revenue Account borrowing allocations remain available to support council housebuilding after too few authorities came forward with...
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6 Oct 14
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for the reopening of the railway between Oxford and Cambridge to connect as many as five garden cities and boost housebuilding.
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29 Sep 14
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has set out details of two new government housing schemes that are intended to open home ownership to more first-time buyers.
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23 Sep 14
Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
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23 Sep 14
Senior Labour party figures have indicated the party is unlikely to lift the current cap on local authority borrowing for housing if it wins the next election.
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22 Sep 14
Labour has set out plans to create local housing corporations that are intended to accelerate the delivery of up to 500,000 new homes.
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5 Sep 14
The next government should introduce legislation to allow as many as 40 cities in England to expand for over a period of 35 years into garden cities that would house more than 150,000 additional...
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3 Sep 14
A majority of people support the construction of new social housing as well as a strong government role in the sector, a poll for the Fabien Society has found.
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28 Aug 14
As many as 40 new garden cities may be needed across the country within the next 20 years to solve the UK’s housing crisis, according to submissions for the Wolfson Economics Prize.
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22 Aug 14
Policy Exchange has encouraged politicians from all parties to develop a plan to improve the condition of Britain’s social housing estates. The think-tank said decades of neglect had led to social...
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15 Aug 14
Some 36 priority housing projects are to receive a share of £850m to help get construction started, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
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14 Aug 14
Councils will be able to join forces with developers to bid for a share of £200m in cash to build new homes on previously-developed land, housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis has announced.
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12 Aug 14
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has confirmed that new limits will be placed on how much councils and housing associations can charge leaseholders for repair work.
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11 Aug 14
A consultation on creating a development corporation responsible for delivering a garden city of up to 15,000 homes in Ebbsfleet has been launched by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles today.
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7 Aug 14
All political parties have been urged to commit to council tax revaluation in the next parliament by the British Property Federation, which said most voters would see little change after a review.
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6 Aug 14
Right-to-Buy discounts for council tenants will be increased by £2,000, housing minister Brandon Lewis has said.
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1 Aug 14
Planning minister Brandon Lewis has set out proposals to quicken the development of neighbourhood plans as part of further government reforms to encourage housebuilding.
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30 Jul 14
Families with disabled people have been most affected by government’s spending cuts and tax and benefits changes since 2010, an analysis carried out for the Equality and Human Rights Commission has...
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30 Jul 14
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has urged councils to submit bids for a £3m fund intended to quicken the planning process for new developments, amid concerns that construction could be hampered by...
23 Oct 14Limited fiscal autonomy for local government contributes to the under-supply of housing across England, according to an analysis undertaken for the Institute for Government.
20 Oct 14Britain is on the brink of becoming a ‘permanently divided’ nation, with increasing numbers of people trapped in low paying jobs, shut out of the housing market and hurt by public spending cuts, the...
16 Oct 14Efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions to tackle fraud and error in the payment of Housing Benefit has not provided value for money and overpayments represent an escalating problem, the...
15 Oct 14A future Labour government will require councils to produce homebuilding plans for their area and allocate enough land to meet local needs, Ed Miliband has announced.
6 Oct 14Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for the reopening of the railway between Oxford and Cambridge to connect as many as five garden cities and boost housebuilding.
23 Sep 14Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
15 Aug 14Some 36 priority housing projects are to receive a share of £850m to help get construction started, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
7 Aug 14All political parties have been urged to commit to council tax revaluation in the next parliament by the British Property Federation, which said most voters would see little change after a review.
30 Jul 14Families with disabled people have been most affected by government’s spending cuts and tax and benefits changes since 2010, an analysis carried out for the Equality and Human Rights Commission has...
