Twenty councils from across England have been selected for the expansion of a Whitehall programme to help central and local government cut costs by sharing offices and other property.
Planning minister Brandon Lewis has set out proposals to quicken the development of neighbourhood plans as part of further government reforms to encourage housebuilding.
The government has saved more than £1.2bn since 2010 by reducing the size of the public sector estate, according to Cabinet Office figures published today.
The Audit Commission has urged councils to ensure they implement a strategic approach to asset and property management after finding £2.5bn of the local government estate could be put to better use.
Schools minister David Laws has announced the government will spend £2bn on a second phase of its Priority School Building Programme in the six years from 2015.
A Whitehall programme to help central and local government share offices and other property is to be extended to 15 new authorities across the country.
A ten-year £92m project to disperse Welsh Government offices around the country suffered from poor governance and weak cost estimates and might not have been value-for-money, auditors said today
Significant reform of the council tax will require a government with a substantial majority and possibly a two-term timeframe, according to a former Labour local government minister.
The coalition’s programme to cut the cost of operational Private Finance Initiative schemes should eventually save more than double its initial £1.5bn target, the chief executive of the Local...
Birmingham City Council has confirmed it is considering the sale of the National Exhibition Centre as part of an asset disposal programme intended to meet the cost of equal pay claims
Members of the public and businesses will be able to bid to buy up a portion of Whitehall’s £330bn land and property portfolio under a Treasury-backed scheme launched today
Home loans worth nearly £1bn have been backed by the government’s Help to Buy mortgage scheme in its first three months, Prime Minister David Cameron said today
The government’s plan to privatise the Royal Mail amounts to ‘flogging off a national institution on the cheap’ and could leave taxpayers shortchanged by future asset sales, Labour’s shadow business...
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has called for Chancellor George Osborne to lift the ‘baleful effects’ of stamp duty on the capital by localising control over property taxes.
Local government secretary Eric Pickles has said he will consider reforming the way councils treat residents who have bought their council house leases under the Right To Buy, noting that some people...
The second phase of the government’s £130bn Help to Buy scheme to will be launched next week, three months earlier than planned, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
The Bank of England has been urged to adopt the aim of limiting annual house price inflation in the UK to 5%, in a bid to ensure ‘stability’ in the cost of homes
Millions of pounds of public money could be saved if the Welsh Government tightened up management of its own estate and stopped regarding buildings as parts of ‘ministerial fiefdoms’, according to...
Local authorities should gain new powers to ‘drive out’ bad landlords from the private rented housing sector and reclaim Housing Benefit when property conditions fall below legal standards, MPs said...
A new drive to help central and local government share offices and other buildings was launched yesterday, with 12 councils to be given extra Whitehall support to make better use of the public sector...
