Philip Hammond’s announcements on housing and mayoral borrowing powers represent a welcome shift in policy. But social care’s absence from the chancellor’s speech is more worrying.
Housing has been hit by the economic uncertainty following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. The government must develop a plan to keep the sector building
The planning system is under attack, as the government is set on delivering more housing for owner-occupiers, sidelining local councils, allowing homes to be created without consent and pushing...
As many as 80,000 council houses could be lost by 2020 under government reforms to extend Right to Buy unless councils are given greater powers to build new homes, the Local Government Association...
David Cameron has set out a national plan to redevelop or rebuild 100 of the most rundown housing estates in England as part of a new government strategy to tackle poverty.
Half of council finance directors are less confident in the ability to deliver savings than they were a year ago, a CIPFA survey ahead of this week’s Spending Review has found.
The Office for National Statistics has today classified housing associations as part of the public sector, leading to an estimated £60bn increase in public sector net debt.
Housing is a political priority for the government, but it is vital that ministers do not just focus on homes to buy. Boosting supply across all tenures can help people choose the right option for...
The country needs thousands of new homes and providing them is a government policy priority. So why have the Conservatives announced measures that will lead to fewer homes being built by social...
The government has published a plan to boost the economic productivity of rural parts of England, with devolution of powers to local authorities and improvements to connectivity among the priorities.
Plans to lower social housing rents by 1% a year for the next four years could lead to as many as 42,000 fewer homes being built across the country, the government has been warned.
Council spending in England fell by almost a third over the duration of the last Parliament, with housing and planning the areas that were hardest hit, CIPFA analysis has found.
Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to impose rent cuts on social housing providers in last week’s summer Budget has hit the creditworthiness of the sector, ratings agency Fitch has said.
Councils that fail to produce local housing and commercial development plans could be forced to do so by the local government secretary Greg Clark, according to proposals in the Treasury’s national...
Programmes run by the government’s Homes and Communities Agency supported the construction of nearly 180,000 affordable homes in the four years to the end of March 2015, it has been confirmed.
Labour would scrap stamp duty for first-time buyers as part of moves to boost housebuilding if it forms the next government, Ed Miliband announced today.
New planning rules freeing builders from the requirement to build social homes have taken effect. In return, ministers are expecting builders to slash their usual sale prices by 20% in bid to help...
Planning minister Brandon Lewis has raised the prospect of bringing in new laws to require councils to use standard processes for reaching section 106 agreements, including setting time limits for...
A Whitehall-commissioned review has urged councils to do more to increase housing supply, but has been criticised for failing to recommend changes to the Housing Revenue Account, which limits...
The government’s ‘bedroom tax’ has affected a greater proportion of tenants in Wales than in Scotland or England, an analysis by the Wales Audit Office has found.
Tougher regulation of the private-rented sector is needed in order to stop landlords from exploiting the housing crisis at the expense of taxpayers and tenants, according to the Civitas think-tank.
Central government is to be involved in the development and sale of homes on public land for the first time in a generation under plans announced by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander as...
