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Councils call for office block conversion rights to be scrapped

Town hall bosses have called for regulations which allow office blocks to be converted into ...

Housing Local Government

More than 1m homes with planning permission yet to be built

The number of planning permission granted for new homes has more than doubled since 2010, ...

Finance Local Government

Government relaxes Right to Buy rules

The new measures will come into force on 1 April and include giving local authorities ...

Housing Local Government

LGA announce successful applicants for housing programme

The LGA has awarded up to £20,000 to each project for the purpose of securing ...

Communities Housing

‘450 primary schools’ worth of children in temporary accommodation

The LGA said the number of children having to spend the latest national lockdown in ...

Communities Economic Development

‘Litany’ of failures to roll out super-fast broadband in rural areas

A new report by the public accounts committee has claimed 1.6 million UK premises, mainly ...

Local Government

Seven councils awarded digital connectivity cash

The projects being delivered by the successful councils focus on developing sustainable rural connectivity mapping, ...

Housing Local Government

Developers yet to seek planning permission for more than 1m homes

‘This is another example of our broken housing delivery system.'

Housing Local Government

Council house waiting lists set to top 2m

The report calls for a post-pandemic building boom of 100,000 new social homes for rent ...

Housing Local Government

MPs to examine plans to reform planning system

‘The government has set out its intention to implement wide ranging reforms and we must ...