Housing

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EXCLUSIVE: Rising temporary accommodation bill fuelled by B&B exodus

By Dan Peters | 26 March 2026

The amount of money spent by councils in the capital on the most expensive type of emergency temporary accommodation (TA) almost doubled in a year, figures shared with The MJ have revealed.

TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION

Reducing reliance on temporary housing

By Naisha Polaine | 26 March 2026

Councils are still placing record numbers into short-term housing, but local authorities like Bar...

HOUSING

Call for developers to be hit with stick

By Dan Peters | 20 March 2026

A senior planner has called for developers that sit on land to be hit with a ‘bit more of a stick’.

HOUSING

Our CCN councils are pro-housing growth, if delivered the right way

By Simon Edwards | 19 March 2026

The planning system is one of the main ways people feel they can influence and shape their commun...

REGENERATION

River deep, feelings high

By Cllr Elissa Swinglehurst | 19 March 2026

The complex challenge of pollution in the River Wye and its tributaries called for a partnership ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Housing First established model in London

By Dan Peters | 19 March 2026

The innovative Housing First programme has become an established model in London, a website showi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Missions mirage

By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2026

The absence of a genuine national growth plan and an accompanying plausible narrative is a block ...

HOUSING

Thousands of new affordable homes could result from the move to raise the HRA threshold

By Cllr Richard Wright | 17 March 2026

The change to the Housing Revenue Account threshold 'is the sort of specific measure that those w...

PLANNING

Planning reforms threaten 'developer free-for-all'

By Martin Ford | 17 March 2026

The voices of rural communities would be ‘severely weakened’ by the Government’s proposed plannin...

SIGOMA

OBR warns pressures on council finances remain

By Sir Stephen Houghton | 13 March 2026

While the Local Government Finance Settlement represents a welcome step towards fixing local auth...

HOUSING

Accelerating housebuilding and overcoming delivery obstacles

By Michael O’Doherty | 12 March 2026

Michael O’Doherty introduces a new webinar series exploring the enablers of successful council-le...