affordable housing

Julie James / National Assemby for Wales

Welsh minister admits stronger links are required between housing need and planning

12.07.2019

Roger Milne

The Welsh Government has accepted the need to strengthen the links between housing need and the planning process.

Scottish Audit probes affordable housing provision

12.07.2019

Roger Milne

affordable housing | Housing | Scotland

The Accounts Commission and the Auditor General have announced an audit of the provision of affordable housing in Scotland.

Khan is not delivering affordable family homes, say London Tories

11.07.2019

Laura Edgar

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been accused of not delivering enough affordable family-sized homes.

Urban village mooted for west Belfast

05.07.2019

Roger Milne

affordable housing | Belfast | Housing | Northern Ireland | social housing

The Braidwater Group, one of the leading private and social housebuilders in the province, has confirmed proposals for a new mixed-use urban village on the western outskirts of the capital.

Appeal: Next phase of Tottenham Hotspur regeneration plans approved

02.07.2019

Matt Moody

North London football club Tottenham Hotspur has won permission to build 316 new homes and a community library, as part of a wider project to regenerate the area around its new £1 billion stadium.

London's private rented sector makes up a quarter of the capital's households – but it's in desperate need of reform, says Jo Wilson

Younger generations now more unlikely to climb the property ladder

01.07.2019

Lydia Till

Young people today are ‘half as likely’ to own a home as they were 20 years ago, while existing homeowners are finding it harder to move, according to a report by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Appeals round-up: Pub demolition blocked after more than 1,000 objections; 105 flats allowed near industrial estate under permitted development

28.06.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 22 June-28 June, 2019

Appeal: Fallback position justifies lower affordable housing contribution

28.06.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | Finance & Viability | London | viability | WMS

Plans to convert and extend a property in Islington to create five flats can go ahead with only 20 per cent of the affordable housing contribution sought by the council, an inspector has ruled.

Scotland round-up: Revised Ravenscraig masterplan is approved; Aberdeen hotel project back on track

28.06.2019

Roger Milne

affordable housing | Ravenscraig | Regeneration | Scotland | St Andrews

A round-up of planning news in Scotland: 22 June-28 June, 2019

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Green paper to explore how to meet the costs of planning

27.06.2019

Laura Edgar

Housing secretary James Brokenshire has confirmed that an accelerated planning green paper will be published later this year. It will consider new approaches to meeting the cost of the planning service.

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