PLANNING INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE

06.10.20 – Only a planning revolution can help turn renters into ‘Generation Buy’

06.10.20 – Strong housing market fuels UK construction industry rebound

05.10.20 – Why is the new housing algorithm facing backlash from Conservative MPs?

04.10.20 – The UK’s retail parks were once the future. Now they look like drab relics of the past

02.10.20 – Building blitz in Lake District and Cotswolds: Housebuilding in the countryside is set to DOUBLE under Government planning reforms

01.10.20 – What we know about the government’s new design advisory body

01.10.20 – Labour attempt to annul permitted development right extensions defeated

30.09.20 – Strong recovery in UK housing market, says Nationwide

28.09.20 – Cummings-inspired planning reforms will lead to ‘disastrous urbanisation’ warns ex-Cabinet minister

28.09.20 – Abolish district councils to help shore up ‘red wall’, suggests top Tory

24.09.20 – Former chief planner reveals concerns about white paper’s housing requirement proposals and PD rights

24.09.20 – Permitted development rights ‘damaging community wellbeing’, report finds

23.09.20 – Tories delay pledge to end no-fault evictions because of economic instability

23.09.20 – Robert Jenrick’s speech on planning for the future

22.09.20 – Jenrick announces next steps to put beauty and design at heart of planning system

22.09.20 – What can we learn from the government’s track record on housing?

18.09.20 – Downing Street facing 70-strong rebellion over planning reforms to radically boost house building across England

17.09.20 – Lords committee raises fears over permitted development and use class order changes

15.09.20 – New housing need method ‘jeopardises ambition to level-up country’, says LGA

15.09.20 – Renters fleeing inner London in ‘race for space’, data suggests

14.09.20 – Councils ‘shouldn’t take their foot off the gas’ in preparing local plans, says chief planner

11.09.20 – Robert Jenrick’s speech to Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) 2020

10.09.20 – Confidence in UK housing market at four-year high, say estate agents

08.09.20 – Government pledges to increase number of affordable homes

07.09.20 – Four in ten permitted new homes in England not actually built, Shelter research claims

06.09.20 – Boris Johnson’s new homes scheme ‘will harm Tory pledge to level up UK’

02.09.20 – House prices at all-time high, says Nationwide

02.09.20 – Proposed new standard method homes numbers ‘not set in stone’, says housing minister

31.08.20 – Fight Tory MPs over planning reform, Boris Johnson is urged

29.08.20 – Boris the builder mustn’t buckle over planning reform

27.08.20 – UK housing demand soars since end of Covid lockdown

26.08.20 – Tory critics force ministers to review planning algorithm

24.08.20 – Planning reforms are an attack on local democracy

23.08.20 – Co-ownership: Housing body sees threefold rise in demand

20.08.20 – Britain’s mysteriously robust housing market

19.08.20 – Coronavirus ‘leaving English councils £2bn short’, report warns

16.08.20 – House prices in recession: What the UK economy means for the housing market – and what’s happened in the past

13.08.20 – Fall in UK house prices will not help first-time buyers, think-tank predicts

12.08.20 – Why the housing market won’t collapse any time soon

11.08.20 – Government’s planning reforms: what impact will the changes have on affordable housing delivery?

10.08.20 – Funding boost to help communities plan their neighbourhoods

07.08.20 – Why the Tories can’t back down over planning reforms

06.08.20 – Planning guidance: letters to chief planning officers

05.08.20 – Planning for the Future White Paper

04.08.20 – £1.3 billion investment to deliver homes, infrastructure and jobs

02.08.20 – New homes to get ‘automatic’ permission in England planning shake-up

28.07.20 – Infrastructure: More local input needed in big projects, say MPs

26.07.20 – Robert Jenrick’s cunning planning revolution might just give our moribund towns a new lease of life

24.07.20 – We’re about to deliver a generation of crap housing unless government heeds the warnings of its own research

23.07.20 – Homes England backs a new “healthy housing” toolkit by Design for Homes

21.07.20 – Two-storey extensions to homes will get fast-track planning permission

20.07.20 – Britain’s housing market sees post-lockdown mini-boom

18.07.20 – Jenrick launches £266 million housing fund for vulnerable people

17.07.20 – New regulations ease local plan publicity rules in response to Covid-19

16.07.20 – I am no fan of the planning system, but the government has backed the wrong horse with its reforms

15.07.20 – We cannot achieve net zero in housing without government backing – and time is running out

14.07.20 – Flood strategy ‘at odds with Boris Johnson push for mass housing’

11.07.20 – Boris Johnson is wrong to blame the housing crisis on overregulation

10.07.20 – Permitted development wrongs: the problems with the PM’s planning deregulation drive

09.07.20 – The Budget was a kick-start, but we need to accelerate on home energy upgrades

08.07.20 – Stamp duty holiday may revive housing market, say experts

07.07.20 – Sunak to unveil £2bn home insulation scheme

06.07.20 – Jenrick acts to safeguard affordable homes during pandemic

05.07.20 – We do need to build more homes, but we need to build them in the right places

03.07.20 – Covid-19 exposes stark generational housing divide, UK report says

02.07.20 – Councils warn of £10billion cash black hole

01.07.20 – Build, Build, Build: Sector reaction

30.06.20 – PM: Build, Build, Build

30.06.20 – Coronavirus slump could delay building of 300,000 homes

29.06.20 – Housing will be ‘central’ to post-coronavirus recovery, says Pincher

22.06.20 – New plans to get Britain building in coronavirus recovery

21.06.20 – Build 100,000 ‘homes for Covid-19 heroes’, say UK council leaders

17.06.20 – Garden community proposals ‘being used by councils to fund roads infrastructure’

15.06.20 – Government offers councils six-month Right to Buy receipts repayment extension

11.06.20 – Coronavirus may have huge impact on property markets

10.06.20 – Jenrick: ‘Time to re-think overly bureaucratic planning system from first principles’

08.06.20 – Government ‘set to back zonal planning system with more powers for development corporations’, reports claim

02.06.20 – More ‘age-appropriate’ homes needed in the UK, says report

01.06.20 – Government urged to extend housing guarantees programme as construction recovery plan published

28.05.20 – Built environment bodies call for creation of national design unit

26.05.20 – Highways England ‘pushing ahead with £90bn roads upgrade plans’

21.05.20 – Rebuilding after coronavirus: what housing wants from government

20.05.20 – Fewer than one third of English councils have up-to-date local plan, say campaigners

14.05.20 – The recipe for a housebuilding recovery has several key ingredients

13.05.20 – Government urges councils to take ‘pragmatic and proportionate’ approach to section 106 obligations

12.05.20 – Housing Secretary sets out plan to re-start housing market

05.05.20 – How housing providers can help the UK bounce back from COVID-19

30.04.20 – Fatcat developers created our housing crisis. Here’s how to stop them

17.04.20 – 1 in 3 planners call for cuts to housing delivery targets during pandemic, says survey

14.04.20 – Pandemic ‘puts government’s 300,000 homes target in doubt’

01.04.20 – Planning Inspectorate Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update

31.03.20 – After the virus let’s replace temporary fixes with permanent housing solutions

30.03.20 – New Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

27.03.20 – UK housing market put on hold after plea from banks

26.03.20 – Why councils may struggle to meet the government’s new local plan deadline

23.03.20 – We must build green to meet the housing shortage

20.03.20 – COVID-19 outbreak – councillor guidance

20.03.20 – Jenrick urged to relax local government committee rules to allow council decision-making to continue

19.03.20 – Almost 100 housing academics call on government to ‘prevent human catastrophe’ over coronavirus

18.03.20 – Jenrick announces coronavirus law to ban eviction of tenants

17.03.20 – The sector must find a way of managing in the impending coronavirus chaos

16.03.20 – Robert Jenrick reaffirms support for councils in their coronavirus response

13.03.20 – Robert Jenrick letter to the Mayor of London

12.03.20 – Robert Jenrick plans for the future to get Britain building

11.03.20 – Budget 2020: the housing bits of Sunak’s speech in full

10.03.20 – Budget 2020: ‘First-time buyers need more help’

09.03.20 – Housing Minister’s speech to the Planning Inspectorate

04.03.20 – The Times view on green belt development: Housing Benefit

03.03.20 – We must make the case for the right funding levels across the entire country

29.02.20 – When governments sell out to developers, housing is no longer a human right

28.02.20 – Leasehold property buyers ‘misled by developers’

27.02.20 – Housing secretary says ministers will enact ‘almost all’ of Beauty Commission’s recommendations

25.02.20 – Housing crisis: Where are the most new homes being built?

24.02.20 – Planning White Paper ‘could see developers facing more onerous design standards and build-out charges’

22.02.20 – Help to Buy dream could become a nightmare for thousands of homeowners

21.02.20 – Rebecca Long-Bailey challenges rivals on housing as Labour race gets personal

20.02.20 – Councils say 1m homes given go-ahead but not yet built

17.02.20 – Why First Homes will not create the additionality needed to solve the housing crisis

16.02.20 – Discounted housing scheme out of reach of most first-time buyers

15.02.20 – New housing minister Christopher Pincher needs to tackle these issues

14.02.20 – Who is new housing minister Christopher Pincher?

13.02.20 – Esther McVey sacked as housing minister in reshuffle

11.02.20 – Johnson backs High Speed Two project in full

11.02.20 – £5bn fund to transform towns in boost for cycling and bus travel

10.02.20 – Boris Johnson to repay the north by approving HS2

07.02.20 – Jenrick unveils plans for ‘First Homes’ with £100,000 discounts

06.02.20 – Election result and Brexit ‘set to speed up infrastructure decisions’, says MHCLG official

05.02.20 – Planners not obliged to consider visual impact when assessing green belt openness, Supreme Court rules

04.02.20 – Why are Britain’s new-builds all so ugly?

03.02.20 – Brexit sparks housing boom in capital, with estate agents reporting highest buyer interest in 15 years

01.02.20 – Local councils face showdown with housing minister as he threatens to strip them of planning powers

01.02.20 – Is housing design and planning safe in the Tories’ hands?

30.01.20 – Housing Secretary: beautiful homes should become ‘norm’

29.01.20 – More affordable housing ‘should be built in national parks’

27.01.20 – The Thinkhouse Review: is co-living a housing solution for vulnerable older people?

26.01.20 – Boris bounce: find out how the election has moved house prices near you

25.01.20 – New homes that conform to local residents’ ideas of beauty to be fast-tracked through planning system

22.01.20 – What do we want from the Mayor when it comes to housing?

21.01.20 – New UK housing ‘dominated by roads’

20.01.20 – It will take more than building homes to solve the housing crisis

20.01.20 – Build HS2 in full, bosses demand

19.01.20 – Serious design flaws in many housing estates, report claims

17.01.20 – Ministers promise to revamp and expand Housing Infrastructure Fund

16.01.20 – What the new London Plan’s housing targets will mean for boroughs’ housing land supplies

16.01.20 – Tory social housing gap is so big it could house every homeless person in the country

15.01.20 – 2020 vision: what lies in store for housing this year

14.01.20 – Government announces £8 million cash boost for vibrant new communities

13.01.20 – The case for … never demolishing another building

11.01.20 – UK ‘Class war’ rages over Government’s housing policy

10.01.20 – ‘Absurd’ leasehold pricing should stop, say campaigners

09.01.20 – Helping the homeless, innovation and cheaper parking can save Britain’s high streets, insists Housing Secretary

07.01.20 – UK house price affordability worsens over past decade

06.01.20 – Number of major residential schemes approved in England falls by ten per cent

05.01.20 – The Guardian view on the UK housing crisis: no plan to fix it

03.01.20 – Labour derides ‘puny’ £4m fund to tackle rogue landlords

02.01.20 – The new MPs who may affect the housing sector

24.12.19 – Nine key planning pledges in the Queen’s Speech

19.12.19 – Queen’s Speech: Delivering fairer, more affordable homes for buyers and renters

19.12.19 – The National Federation of Builders welcomes Queen’s Speech plans to increase planning certainty

18.12.19 – Khan agrees to cut London Plan housing targets but stands firm on green belt

16.12.19 – Why we must collectively hold this government to account on housing

13.12.19 – Tory 2019 election victory: Seven key planning promises made by the party

13.12.19 – General election 2019: housing sector reacts to Conservative majority