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Housing Minister says UPRNs should be ‘baked in’ to streamline house buying and selling

|Date: 23 June, 2021

Housing Minister says UPRNs should be ‘baked in’ to streamline house buying and selling

Speaking at last month’s GeoPlace annual conference, the Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP, the Minister for ...

Speaking at last month’s GeoPlace annual conference, the Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP, the Minister for Housing, acknowledged that the widespread adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) ...

23 June, 2021
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Businesses call on government to put net zero and nature at the heart of planning system

|Date: 14 June, 2021

Businesses call on government to put net zero and nature at the heart of planning system

More than 100 prominent business leaders have written to the Prime Minister calling for the net zero tran ...

More than 100 prominent business leaders have written to the Prime Minister calling for the net zero transition, nature’s recovery, and climate resilience to be at the heart of the UK’s new planning s ...

14 June, 2021
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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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Housing White Paper — encouraging signs that government is listening to councils

|Date: 7 February, 2017

Housing White Paper — encouraging signs that government is listening to councils

In his speech unveiling the new Housing White Paper earlier today, Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, The Secretary o ...

In his speech unveiling the new Housing White Paper earlier today, Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, said “local authorities have a vital role to play ...

7 February, 2017
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