Sales of council houses under the right-to-buy scheme almost doubled to 2,000 in the last three months of last year, the Department for Communities and Local Government has revealed
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday announced almost £50m of additional spending for housing and colleges before his £28bn Budget Bill was passed by Holyrood.
A cross-party Holyrood guarantee of homes for all Scotland’s homeless people could be scuppered by the UK coalition government’s austerity programme, housing charity Shelter Scotland has said.
Energy minister Greg Barker has urged councils to become ‘agents’ for energy efficiency following the launch of the government’s landmark Green Deal programme.
The government has been urged to provide more support to housebuilding in cities after it was revealed that targeted action across England could re-start work at more than 118,000 sites.
More local government pension schemes will back housebuilding projects once investment limits are doubled, a senior councillor has told Public Finance.
Housing groups and councils have today called for borrowing powers to build 60,000 affordable homes, saying the investment would boost economic growth by 0.6%.
The number of working people claiming Housing Benefit to subsidise their rent has almost doubled in the last three years, according to the National Housing Federation.
Councils have hit out at the government’s latest proposals to reform the planning system, warning that moves to remove responsibility for decisions from town halls could ‘undermine confidence’ in...
Ministers should scrap proposals to relax planning restrictions on house extensions, loft conversions and conservatories, the Local Government Association has said.
The government’s welfare reforms could be undermined by plans to finance the construction of 80,000 new affordable homes through higher rents on the properties, the Public Accounts Committee warned...
Affordable housing will be a priority for the Scottish Futures Trust in the next financial year, finance director Peter Reekie has told Public Finance.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls today called on the government to use the £4bn windfall from the sale of the next generation of mobile phone licences to build 100,000 new homes.
Prime Minister David Cameron today revealed a series of relaxations to planning rules to boost housebuilding, including removing developers’ obligations to councils to provide affordable homes.
