Planning

By Mark Conrad | 11 January 2017

Three-quarters of councillors believe the planning system is too weighted in favour of developers...

FINANCE

Keeping housing ratios real

By Cllr David Finch | 10 January 2017

The UK is in the grip of a major housing crisis, but it will take more than bricks and mortar for...

CLIMATE CHANGE

High Court: Council right to approve fracking

By Laura Sharman | 20 December 2016

Fracking will be allowed to take place in North Yorkshire after the High Court ruled the county c...

FINANCE

'Long-term national solution' still needed to solve social care crisis

By Dan Peters | 15 December 2016

The sector and experts have argued that the announcement that an extra £900m will be made availab...

WHITEHALL

Report: housing targets 'impossible' for councils

By James Evison | 13 December 2016

A lack of planning resources means housing targets ‘will be impossible’ for almost 90% of local a...

New funding and strategy for rundown estates

By Dan Peters | 08 December 2016

New government funding to help breathe new life into rundown estates has been announced, along wi...

PLANNING

Getting your clause into new housing

By Jason Longhurst | 29 November 2016

Jason Longhurst reflects on Central Bedfordshire’s implementation of a Five Year Delivery Clause ...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall must stop curbing councils

By Sam Clayden | 23 November 2016

The Government will fail to solve the housing crisis if it continues to ‘disincentivise’ councils...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Healey: Rethink housing legislation after U-turn

By Sam Clayden | 22 November 2016

Shadow housing secretary John Healey has called for a rethink on the rest of the Housing and Plan...

PLANNING

50 years on from Cathy Come Home

By Simon Graham | 18 November 2016

Support for homeless people has transformed over the last 50 years, but is enough really being do...

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