The Treasury has launched an initiative to cut costs in projects built using the controversial Private Finance Initiative by urging private operators of hospitals and schools to agree to a code of...
A year on from the start of housing self-financing and most elements are working well. But the move to full depreciation accounting needs a bit more time
London Mayor Boris Johnson has embraced the Travers commission proposals for increased financial autonomy for the capital. But will Whitehall, asks Vivienne Russell
Planning relaxations that come into effect in England today will ‘significantly reduce’ councils' ability to decide on important developments in their area, the Local Government Association has...
The Department for Communities and Local Government is to leave its Eland House headquarters to share office space with the Home Office, in a move expected to save £24m a year.
Holyrood’s finance committee has approved in principle Scottish Government plans to replace stamp duty with a more progressive form of property transaction tax.
Sales of government property and land have raised more than £1bn since the coalition came to power in May 2010, according to figures released by the Cabinet Office today.
Energy minister Greg Barker has urged councils to become ‘agents’ for energy efficiency following the launch of the government’s landmark Green Deal programme.
Ministers will later today announce a change to planning rules to allow free schools to establish themselves in offices, warehouses or other premises without applying for planning permission first.
More local government pension schemes will back housebuilding projects once investment limits are doubled, a senior councillor has told Public Finance.
The executive director of the Government Property Unit has said the costs of Whitehall’s Private Finance Initiative buildings ‘stick in my throat’ and he hopes to reopen the...
Ministers should scrap proposals to relax planning restrictions on house extensions, loft conversions and conservatories, the Local Government Association has said.
Housing minister Mark Prisk has announced the first allocations from the £280m extension to the FirstBuy scheme, which helps people get on the property ladder.
Councils could have to find an extra £5m to fund the Community Right to Bid, despite ministerial promises that any new burdens would be centrally financed, Unison has claimed.
The Treasury has been criticised for failing to provide funding for a cross-government initiative to make more efficient use of the public sector estate.
The Public Accounts Committee today called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure, saying some of the private sector profits were ‘difficult...
