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...
The Welsh government is consulting on a new land transaction tax for Wales, it has been announced. Finance minister Jane Hutt said this would be the first new tax to be levied in Wales for 800 years.
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...
Housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis today called on councils to prioritise development of brownfield land so that more homes can be built while protecting the countryside.
Housing associations should be freed up to select their own social tenants, set their own rent policies and build more homes, Policy Exchange has proposed.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is to be led by a directly elected mayor under plans to devolve a host of powers to the city region, Chancellor George Osborne has announced today.
Limited fiscal autonomy for local government contributes to the under-supply of housing across England, according to an analysis undertaken for the Institute for Government.
Britain is on the brink of becoming a ‘permanently divided’ nation, with increasing numbers of people trapped in low paying jobs, shut out of the housing market and hurt by public spending cuts, the...
Efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions to tackle fraud and error in the payment of Housing Benefit has not provided value for money and overpayments represent an escalating problem, the...
Local authorities often offer little or no help to homeless people according to undercover research into council provision across England by from charity Crisis.
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.
