PLANNING INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE

04.06.19  – Labour could stop renters paying council tax in major property laws shake-up

04.06.19  – House-building now accounts for 60% of all new construction work

03.06.19  – House building not keeping up with demand due to population growth

25.05.19  – Planning red tape axed

22.05.19  – Gary Porter: The local elections weren’t just about Brexit. Hostility to new housing was a big factor

20.05.19  –  Will the Conservatives’ current housing policies survive a leadership battle?

20.05.19  – Oxfordshire’s Housing and Growth deal at risk after local elections

13.05.19  – Truss calls for 1m green belt homes to avoid Tory ‘annihilation’

09.05.19  – What the local election results mean for planning

03.05.19  – TCPA calls for a Healthy Homes Act to tackle concerns over poor-quality housing

03.05.19  – Local elections: Conservatives lose more than 1300 councillors

02.05.19  – Housebuilders maintain record investment in land despite wider uncertainties

24.04.19  – TCPA responds to Labour’s commitment to scrapping permitted development

24.04.19  – Failing to Plan

15.04.19  – Bid to establish that councils cannot delay permitted development decisions goes to High Court

15.04.19  – Theresa May pledges to abolish ‘no-fault’ eviction powers for landlords in overhaul of private rented sector

14.04.19  – Tory leadership race hots up as MP lays out mini housing manifesto 

11.04.19  – Brexit a major drag on UK housing market, say RICS

03.04.19  – PDI delighted to be working on Chesterton, Cirencester application to build 2,350 new homes which has received planning consent following the S106 agreements being signed

26.03.19  – Overwhelming majority of buyers happy with their new build home

25.03.19  – Nationwide gets back to its roots by building homes

25.03.19  – LGA responds to Campaign to Protect Rural England report on building new homes

13.03.19  – Ten circumstances ‘special’ enough to justify green belt development

19.02.19  – More than 100 councils fall short as first ‘housing delivery test’ results revealed

08.02.19  – Half of councils expected to miss housebuilding targets 

04.02.19  – Anywhere but here: voters’ strange doublethink on housing

08.01.19  – Ed Miliband: Why Britain should build three million new council houses

08.01.19  – Over a million British families will pay costly rent forever & will never be able to afford to buy their own home

08.01.19  – A Vision for Social Housing

01.01.19  – This has been the worst decade for house-building since WW2, all it’s all our fault 

29.12.18  – Only five per cent of new homes will be affordable to the most vulnerable, government reveals

20.12.18  – Plans to speed up new homes held up with new developer contribution rules 

25.11.18  – The property tax system works brilliantly – if you’re a builder or wealthy homeowner 

19.11.18  – Raynsford Review of Planning to be launched on 20th November

15.11.18  – Supply of new homes up 78% in 5 years

15.11.18  – James Brokenshire welcomes rise in number of new homes

05.11.18  – Theresa May’s flagship policy to solve housing crisis will deliver no new homes in half of England

03.11.18  – James Brokenshire: building better and beautiful will deliver more homes

02.11.18  – Housebuilding slowdown dampens construction industry recovery

30.10.18  – Budget 2018: What do the housing measures mean?

30.10.18  – This budget shows Conservatives have run out of ideas on housing

26.10.18  – Technical consultation on updates to national planning policy and guidance

25.10.18  – Developers hog land for record 130,000 homes, analysis reveals

23.10.18  – Planning permissions sustained at +350,000 as plan for growth continue

11.10.18  – Housing Market Intelligence Conference 2018

10.10.18  – Tory Westminster councillor resigns after hospitality inquiry

06.10.18 – Cabinet urges May to build on green belt

05.10.18 – Green belt is eaten up to meet appetite for new homes

03.10.18 – Reality Check: What are the plans to boost council homes

24.09.18 – Labour plans to give tenants more power

19.09.18 – People should be proud of their council house

16.09.18 – Ministers consider making trespass a criminal offence to keep travellers of private land

13.08.18 – Cut ‘absurdly high’ stamp duty to end Britain housing ‘disgrace’, Boris Johnson urges PM

09.08.18 – First-time buyers left high and dry as number of cheaper homes plunges under the Tories

06.08.18 – ‘Build on our green fields or get Corbyn in power!’ Tory minister Liz Truss sparks fury as she demands planning laws be ripped up and complains about Nimbys in Britain

06.08.18 – Alarm as green belt land concreted over with houses for the better off

31.07.18 – Brokenshire calls for London Plan review to ensure new NPPF compliance

10.07.18 – Mr Buggins is dead – long live Mr Buggins

20.06.18 – Brokenshire supports report calling for ‘the pursuit of beauty’ in news

13.06.18 – Sir William Worsley, the new tree champion, will give residents a say on chopping

14.04.18 – Labour plans 100,000 homes a year

17.04.18 – The housing timebomb: A third of all millennials will still be renting when they collect their pensions