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Spending Review 2020 – housing organisation highlights
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced a raft of housing policies in the Spending Review on Wednesday 25 November. Perhaps most eye-catching…
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Changes to Planning are afoot
The government has published “Planning for the Future”, a white paper to reform planning. MHCLG-Planning-Consultation A number of discussions are bring had within housing…
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Planning Reform
These some really helpful information guides as it prepared its response to the Planning white paper. Thanks to the CIH for the easy read…
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Section 106 advice – affordable homes under threat as contractors return to work
The latest advice suggests planning authorities consider allowing small and medium-sized (SME) developers to defer Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) obligations in a bid…
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Construction site hours – activity extended under CV19
Construction sites in England will be allowed to extend working hours until 9pm in residential areas and beyond that on other sites as part…
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The Housing Budget 2020 – round up
There are a number of articles of note out there. here is a summary for those wishing to scan the news: This is a…
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Understanding Local Housing Markets
We just came across this publication from the LGA in June. Local authorities have a range of duties and wider interests in ensuring the…
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Attitudes to housing in Wales
This might help anyone thinking about survey questions in this matter: CIH Cymru public perceptions report FINAL …
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Community building
Here is a useful document from the experience of 18 community building projects: Ebook – 2019 Community Predictions…
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NHF Great Places report
Here is the much awaited response from the great places commission NHF_Great-Places_Report_Online_FINAL “Housing associations are significant economic players across the Midlands and the North.…
