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.
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...
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.
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.
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-...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Some 36 priority housing projects are to receive a share of £850m to help get construction started, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Planning minister Brandon Lewis has set out proposals to quicken the development of neighbourhood plans as part of further government reforms to encourage housebuilding.
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...
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...
The Liberal Democrats have pledged to reform the controversial bedroom tax so that claimants are only penalised if they turn down suitable alternative accommodation.
Local authorities could be forced to publish the value of the council flats and houses that they own, under government plans unveiled by housing minister Kris Hopkins.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said he would be ‘very disappointed’ if councils were not retaining nearly all of business rates by the end of the decade following the coalition’s local...
