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PLANNING

We're not beggars and we can be choosers

By Bob Neill | 13 November 2018

With the amount of collective resources and brainpower going into the national housebuilding prog...

PLANNING

Councils are the heart of the beautiful homes debate

By Kit Malthouse | 07 November 2018

Central Government has rewritten the planning rulebook. Now it is up to local authorities to chal...

PLANNING

Budget 2018: Letwin calls for new approach to large sites

By Laura Sharman | 29 October 2018

Local authorities with high housing demand should be given the freedom to allocate land as single...

PLANNING

Leader threatens legal challenge over tunnel

By Mark Conrad | 15 October 2018

Thurrock Council’s leader has threatened a judicial review of Highways England’s plan for a Lower...

WHITEHALL

Brokenshire writes: Lifting the barriers to building

10 October 2018

Councils are the ‘sleeping giant’ of our housing system, as James Brokenshire explains, and now i...

PLANNING

Questions over cost of Labour's local government promises

By Mark Conrad | 25 September 2018

Senior Labour figures delivered a raft of local government-related policy announcements at their ...

PLANNING

Councils should benefit from land value uplift - MPs

By William Eichler | 13 September 2018

Increases in land value that result from public policy decisions should be shared with councils i...

PLANNING

Housing minister defends planning changes

By Martin Ford | 05 September 2018

Housing minister Kit Malthouse has asked for time for new policies to ‘bed in’ as he was quizzed ...

WHITEHALL

Ups and downs for districts

By Ian Miller | 21 August 2018

Ian Miller gives an overview of the latest decisions and indecisions to affect district councils.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Officers push for CPO reforms

By Mark Conrad | 07 August 2018

Council officers are pushing for reforms to the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) regime, claiming ...

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Assistant Director Strategy & Community Regeneration

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