Local Government Association Archives - Page 5 of 8

Home Office to introduce new Fire Safety Bill

|Date: 19 March, 2020

Home Office to introduce new Fire Safety Bill

The Home Office is introducing a new bill to improve fire safety in buildings in England and Wales. The p ...

The Home Office is introducing a new bill to improve fire safety in buildings in England and Wales. The proposed Fire Safety Bill builds on action already taken to ensure that people feel safe in thei ...

19 March, 2020
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Complete ban on evictions and additional protection for renters

|Date: 19 March, 2020

Complete ban on evictions and additional protection for renters

The Government has announced a radical package of measures to protect renters and landlords affected by c ...

The Government has announced a radical package of measures to protect renters and landlords affected by coronavirus. As a result, no renter in either social or private accommodation will be forced out ...

19 March, 2020
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Budget 2020 | Industry opinion

|Date: 12 March, 2020

Budget 2020 | Industry opinion

From a £1bn building safety fund to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise residential buildings, to a £12 ...

From a £1bn building safety fund to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise residential buildings, to a £12bn multi-year extension to the Affordable Housing Programme, Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget in ...

12 March, 2020
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More than one million homes with planning permission not yet built

|Date: 20 February, 2020

More than one million homes with planning permission not yet built

More than a million homes granted planning permission in the past decade have not yet been built, accordi ...

More than a million homes granted planning permission in the past decade have not yet been built, according to new analysis by the Local Government Association. Latest figures show that 2,564,600 unit ...

20 February, 2020
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Government to cut the cost of new homes by a third

|Date: 7 February, 2020

Government to cut the cost of new homes by a third

First Homes will see a discount locked into the property to ensure more first-time buyers benefit in year ...

First Homes will see a discount locked into the property to ensure more first-time buyers benefit in years to come. A new generation of homeowners will be able to take their first step on to the housi ...

7 February, 2020
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Beautiful homes should become the ‘norm’ says Housing Secretary

|Date: 31 January, 2020

Beautiful homes should become the ‘norm’ says Housing Secretary

The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission’s final report launched at the Garden Museum in Lambet ...

The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission’s final report launched at the Garden Museum in Lambeth on the 30th January. Living with Beauty supports the creation of more beautiful communities a ...

31 January, 2020
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Over two-thirds of council’s homelessness services pushed into the red

|Date: 29 January, 2020

Over two-thirds of council’s homelessness services pushed into the red

Rising levels of homelessness and the increasing cost of using expensive bed and breakfast accommodation ...

Rising levels of homelessness and the increasing cost of using expensive bed and breakfast accommodation to place families have plunged more than two-thirds of all council homelessness services in Eng ...

29 January, 2020
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Over 13,500 affordable homes lost through office conversions

|Date: 13 January, 2020

Over 13,500 affordable homes lost through office conversions

Communities have potentially lost out on more than 13,500 desperately-needed affordable homes in the past ...

Communities have potentially lost out on more than 13,500 desperately-needed affordable homes in the past four years as a result of rules allowing offices to be converted into housing without planning ...

13 January, 2020
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Worrying failure rate of smoke alarms prompts safety warning

|Date: 2 December, 2019

Worrying failure rate of smoke alarms prompts safety warning

Almost 40% of battery-powered smoke alarms failed to activate in residential fires in England in the past ...

Almost 40% of battery-powered smoke alarms failed to activate in residential fires in England in the past year — a level which has remained virtually unchanged in nearly a decade, the Local Government ...

2 December, 2019
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LGA responds to ONS figures on the number of deaths of homeless people

|Date: 1 October, 2019

LGA responds to ONS figures on the number of deaths of homeless people

According to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, there has been a record annual incr ...

According to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, there has been a record annual increase in the numbers of homeless deaths in England and Wales — an estimated 726 people died in 2 ...

1 October, 2019
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