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15 Apr Communities

How IKEA is creating meaningful change in local communities across the UK

30 Mar Communities

Can other countries show us how to solve Britain’s housing crisis?

Britain’s chronic housing shortage is among the biggest challenges facing the country as it heads into this year’s general election.

28 Mar Home affairs

Government Has Scaled Back The Renters' Reform Bill

Ministers have delayed their own plans to ban no-fault evictions, as the landmark Renters' Reform Bill has been watered down.

28 Mar Home affairs

Ministers Met Landlords Twice As Often As Tenants’ Groups Over Renters’ Reform Bill

Ministers met with lobbyists for landlords and estate agents twice as often as they did groups representing renters as they worked to refine new protections for tenants in the landmark Renters Reform Bill, according to analysis by PoliticsHome.

Mission possible: Delivering tomorrow’s homes today

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28 Mar Economy

Mission possible: Delivering tomorrow’s homes today

With the British public at its heart, government can improve lives by enabling delivery of low-carbon homes with permanently low energy bills for all

Why the community-owned business model works for rural settlements

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26 Mar Communities

Why the community-owned business model works for rural settlements

Isolation and loneliness. A lack of employment opportunities. Fewer services and poor connectivity. Right now, rural areas are experiencing a housing crisis¹ and the challenges are growing for residents of all ages, cultures, backgrounds and family set ups². Addressing this, leading south of England housebuilder and community creator, Thakeham, and national charity, Plunkett UK, are working together to pioneer a transformative new approach: embedding community-owned businesses at the heart of new housing developments.

25 Mar Home affairs

Conservative Voters Support Contentious Leasehold Reforms

Conservative voters are keen to see ground rents abolished on leasehold properties, despite significant pushback from within the parliamentary party to water down the major reform put forward by housing secretary Michael Gove.

15 Mar Social affairs

Future Of Renters Reform Bill Remains In Doubt

The future of the government's much-delayed Renters Reform Bill remains in doubt, with uncertainty about its path after the next parliamentary recess.

13 Mar Social affairs

Michael Gove Urged To Firm Up Protections For Tenants Falling Into Rent Arrears

A coalition of charities including StepChange and Citizens Advice have written to housing secretary Michael Gove calling for stronger protections in the Renters' Reform Bill for tenants who fall into arrears.

10 Mar Communities

Housing Minister Says Housing Is "Never Really The Problem"

Housing Minister Lee Rowley has said that housing itself is "never really actually the problem,” a few months after taking on the job of leading the UK government’s strategy on housing, planning and building safety.

08 Mar Communities

Keir Starmer must seize the chance to be radical on housing

By going big and bold on housing in his first term in Downing Street, Keir Starmer would boost his chances of re-election and help turn the tide against Nimbyism.

28 Feb Communities

Tory Former Minister Accuses Own Party Of "Fatalistic Attitude" To Younger Voters

Conservative MP and former Home Office minister Robert Jenrick has accused his party of having a "fatalistic attitude" towards young people and suggested that they should attempt to follow the example of similar parties in Europe and North America where they have done better in courting younger voters.

26 Feb Communities

An ambitious social housebuilding programme can be achieved with the right policy leadership

By Keir Starmer’s own words, homelessness is a political choice, and it has almost doubled in the last decade alone.

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26 Feb Communities

CMA confirms that the housing crisis is caused by a broken planning process

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released it’s ‘Housebuilding Market Study: Final Report,’ which confirms what anybody who deals with planning already knows; that the housing crisis is caused by the planning process and government failure.

20 Feb Communities

Housing Minister Says "Lots Of People Doing A Little" Can Help Solve Housing Crisis

Housing minister Lee Rowley has praised the Prince of Wales’s plans for the Duchy of Cornwall to fund a £3m innovative housing project in the south-west of England as an example of "lots of people doing a little" to address the housing crisis, and welcomes input from major landowners.

30 Jan Home affairs

Tory Former Housing Minister Has Joined Pro-Building Pressure Group Taking On NIMBYs

Conservative MP Brandon Lewis and Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh have joined housing campaign group PricedOut as Parliamentary Champions as they urge the Government to build more homes in order to fix the housing crisis.

22 Jan Home affairs

Pro-Development Tories Are Desperate To Convince NIMBYs New Houses Would Be "Popular" In Their Patch

A number of Conservative MPs who believe new housing should be a top priority are looking to persuade NIMBY MPs that housebuilding can be "popular" in their area, as the issue continues to bitterly divide the Tories ahead of the next election.

10 Jan Home affairs

Contentious Ground Rents Could Cling On In New Leasehold Bill

Leasehold campaigners are concerned the Leasehold and Freehold Bill will not cap ground rents to peppercorn rates, a measure that would significantly ease the financial burden on leaseholders.

Housing must not become a battle between Quality vs Quantity – we must deliver both

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09 Jan Environment

Housing must not become a battle between Quality vs Quantity – we must deliver both

The November reshuffle saw the appointment of yet another Housing Minister – the 16th since 2010. And in the run-up to the long-awaited Christmas break, there were several significant announcements on planning permission reform to get Britian building again. With a General Election inevitably on the horizon, we can expect that there is only more stall-setting to come on what is expected to be one of the biggest policy issues at the ballot box.

02 Jan Home affairs

Hopes Rise For Spring Reform Of “Feudal” Leasehold System, But Legal Concerns Remain

Parliamentarians and campaigners are hopeful the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, which seeks to tackle “inequality” in the housing market, could be put into law early next year, after it faced little opposition in the House of Commons.

01 Jan Economy

Conservative Growth Group Is Working To "Unite The Right"

Leading figures in the Conservative Growth Group (CGG), a free market-favouring faction within the Tory Party, will place a renewed focus on uniting MPs on the right to increase pressure on the Government and bolster support for its ideas ahead of the election.

01 Dec 2023 Communities

Tory MP Compares Planning System To “A Scene From The Thick Of It”

Former Conservative housing minister Brandon Lewis has said the UK's planning system means that the process to get permission for new developments resembles a scene from satirical TV programme “The Thick of It”.

28 Nov 2023 Communities

Tory levelling up is a sham but Labour has a plan to save it

After a decade of promising to call time on the postcode lottery, this government is failing to deliver. With Britain’s regions further apart than ever, the Conservatives’ flagship project is a sham and a scam. The mask has slipped, and the public has seen the hollowness at its heart.

27 Nov 2023 Communities

Beauty in the spaces in between

Our wellbeing is enhanced by places we like and diminished by those we do not. What we like isn’t merely taste. In our collective desire to build better homes, the focus on binary or overly simplistic words such as “beautiful” or “ugly” are not helpful.