PLANNING INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE

03.03.21 – RICS response to UK Gov budget

03.03.21 – Budget 2021: how the sector reacted to Rishi Sunak’s housing announcements

02.03.21 – Affordable housing: Building plans cut by two-thirds for second programme

26.02.21 – Reduced weight attributed to outdated policies upheld

25.02.21 – MHCLG will work ‘collaboratively’ with councils on OxCam spatial framework, says civil servant

24.02.21 – Boris Johnson claims ‘no cut’ to Transport for the North – despite planned 40% reduction

23.02.21 – Local authority registered provider social housing stock in England

22.02.21 – Formal adoption date for new London Plan finally confirmed

20.02.21 – Cabinet minister sent to the Midlands: Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick will set up base in Wolverhampton as part of government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda

19.02.21 – Affordable housing funding: strategic partner application process

18.02.21 – Government plan to transform Oxford-Cambridge Arc into UK’s fastest growing economic region

17.02.21 – What will Britain’s towns and cities look like in the future?

16.02.21 – Coronavirus pushes 450,000 families into housing debt

15.02.21 – Renters: Eviction ban in England extended until March

13.02.21 – A vision for South West Cambridge 

12.02.21 – Government moots withholding New Homes Bonus payments from councils without up-to-date local plans

11.02.21 – High street revolt over bid to turn city centres into homes from home

10.02.21 – Funding boost provides councils with certainty to plan for year ahead with £51 billion funding package

09.02.21 – National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code: consultation proposals

08.02.21 – How to turn the UK’s ‘generation rent’ into ‘generation buy’

07.02.21 – How to turn the UK’s ‘generation rent’ into ‘generation buy’

06.02.21 – Backbenchers shoot down plan to fix cladding crisis with loans

02.02.21 – Plan policies for large settlements should have 30-year vision, draft NPPF changes state

01.02.21 – The housing emergency is working against efforts to build stronger communities

30.01.21 – All new developments must meet local standards of beauty, quality and design under new rules

29.01.21 – London Plan approved by government after year delay

28.01.21 – ‘Make net zero outcomes a prerequisite of new development’, RTPI report urges

25.01.21 – When Covid is over, what buildings do we actually want to see in Britain’s cities?

22.01.21 – MHCLG accused of ‘legislative sleight of hand’ in making temporary Covid-19 planning changes permanent

21.01.21 – End of year stats show milestones reached in making homes safer

20.01.21 – How the government is backing permitted development, city living and new settlements to meet its housebuilding target, by Catriona Riddell

19.01.21 – More than 50 councils to get planning powers curbed following latest Housing Delivery Test results

18.01.21 – Stamp duty cut brings boom times for builders

16.01.21 – Sajid Javid urges action on housebuilder competition

16.01.21 – ‘Right to Regenerate’ to turn derelict buildings into homes and community assets

15.01.21 – Housing supply figures recovered after first coronavirus lockdown, data shows

14.01.21 – Housing market in England and Wales loses momentum

13.01.21 – Ministers should scrap plans to build 300,000 homes a year, say countryside groups

12.01.21 – How the latest London Plan changes will affect development

06.01.21 – CIL Watch: Housing minister says government is open to “regional” approach for new infrastructure levy

04.01.21 – Housebuilding activity will not fully recover until 2023

11.12.20 – The 121 authorities that we predict will face housing delivery test sanctions next year

10.12.20 – Ministers need a new plan on housing for the north

09.12.20 – MPs slam MHCLG’s ‘serial failures’ on housing policies in blistering report

08.12.20 – Housing minister promises government response to standard method consultation ‘shortly’

07.12.20 – Homes England calls on sector to sign Building Safety Charter

04.12.20 – Tory rebels plot to block new homes on climate grounds in planning algorithm row

03.12.20 – Fast track for public services: new planning reforms to speed up delivery of schools and hospitals

01.12.20 – UK house price growth ‘fastest for almost six years’

27.11.20 – Boris Johnson’s ‘mutant’ planning algorithm could scar England for ever

25.11.20 – Chancellor announces £12 million for planning reform, but no details yet

24.11.20 – More than 50% of Conservative backbenchers consider opposing planning reforms, survey shows

22.11.20 – Tories call for inquiry into ‘bad data’ to justify rural housebuilding