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Government unveils its levelling up plan to transform UK

|Date: 2 February, 2022

Government unveils its levelling up plan to transform UK

Michael Gove has unveiled the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper, which sets out a plan to transform t ...

Michael Gove has unveiled the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper, which sets out a plan to transform the UK by spreading opportunity and prosperity to all parts of it. The Levelling Up Secretary sa ...

2 February, 2022
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Industry Comment | Is planning really a problem?

|Date: 3 August, 2021

Industry Comment | Is planning really a problem?

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), looks at the iss ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), looks at the issues surrounding planning and argues that councils need more powers to incentivise developers to ...

3 August, 2021
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National Audit Office report calls for significant planning reform

|Date: 8 February, 2019

National Audit Office report calls for significant planning reform

Government will fail to solve the housing crisis unless radical changes are made to the planning process. ...

Government will fail to solve the housing crisis unless radical changes are made to the planning process. The National Audit Office has released a new report — Planning for new homes — which asserts g ...

8 February, 2019
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Planning system not fit for purpose, says former Housing Minister

|Date: 16 May, 2018

Planning system not fit for purpose, says former Housing Minister

A new review of the planning system by former Housing Minister Nick Raynsford calls on the government to ...

A new review of the planning system by former Housing Minister Nick Raynsford calls on the government to scrap existing planning legislation, saying that it has been ‘built on the back of assertion ra ...

16 May, 2018
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New report proposes further reform of the planning system to increase homebuilding

|Date: 14 December, 2017

New report proposes further reform of the planning system to increase homebuilding

A new report by Croydon South MP Chris Philp, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, proposes furthe ...

A new report by Croydon South MP Chris Philp, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, proposes further reform of the planning system to increase homebuilding and promote home ownership. With the a ...

14 December, 2017
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A return to Whitehall housing targets risks letting London off the hook says Elphicke

|Date: 7 February, 2017

A return to Whitehall housing targets risks letting London off the hook says Elphicke

Former government housing adviser Natalie Elphicke brands the Housing White Paper "technically strong rat ...

Former government housing adviser Natalie Elphicke brands the Housing White Paper "technically strong rather than radical." Elphicke warns that a return to Whitehall building targets "could let London ...

7 February, 2017
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