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HOUSING
Councils key to New Towns success, say peers
By Martin Ford | 25 October 2025
Councils must have a key role to make a success of the New Towns programme, peers have urged.
LONDON
London housing measures to empower mayor
By Dan Peters | 24 October 2025
A much-trailed announcement of muscular measures to accelerate housing delivery in London has bee...
PLANNING
PAC: 'Drought of planners' is 'serious problem'
17 October 2025
MPs are ‘unconvinced’ the Government is addressing the ‘lack of staffing capacity and capability ...
DEVOLUTION
Avoiding the grey zone
By Adele Gritten | 15 October 2025
Adele Gritten says clarifying roles in England’s evolving governance landscape is crucial to avoi...
PLANNING
Planning power grab bid
By Martin Ford | 13 October 2025
The Government is seeking to gain more powers to prevent councils refusing planning permission.
PLANNING
Why the planning system must protect our green spaces
By Baroness Sater | 13 October 2025
Baroness Sater says the Planning and Infrastructure Bill fails to recognise the threat posed to c...
HOUSING
New Towns report: 'stars align' for mayors
By Martin Ford | 08 October 2025
Mayors are set to take more prominent roles in planning matters, a think-tank has said.
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
DCN is 'punching above its weight'
By Martin Ford | 08 October 2025
As Sam Chapman-Allen’s tenure as chair of the District Councils’ Network (DCN) comes to an end, h...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Conservatives call for reduced affordable housing targets
By Paul Marinko | 06 October 2025
Shadow housing secretary Sir James Cleverly has suggested affordable housing targets for new deve...
CONSERVATIVES
Stability, partnership and delivery
By Sir James Cleverly | 02 October 2025
As delegates prepare to head to the Conservative party conference, Sir James Cleverly highlights ...
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