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Housing design audit to assess large developments

17.06.2019

Laura Edgar

Built environment organisations have come together to support the UK’s first national housing design audit, which plans to examine large-scale housing developments.

Extended permitted development rights take effect this month

15.05.2019

Laura Edgar

CPRE | England | permitted development | Policy & Politics

The extension of permitted development rights to allow high street conversions to offices and homes is to come into effect on 25 May.

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Research: Shovel-ready brownfield land could house thousands

25.03.2019

Laura Edgar

brownfield land | brownfield registers | CPRE | England | Housing

There is enough suitable brownfield land to deliver thousands of new homes and make an immediate contribution towards meeting housing need.

Arc residents are concerned for countryside, suggests poll

21.03.2019

Laura Edgar

CPRE | East of England | Housing | oxford-cambridge corridor | South East

The Campaign to Protect Rural England has called for an inquiry into proposals that will see a million homes built across the Oxford-to-Cambridge Arc by 2050. This comes as a poll finds that 74 per cent of those living in the arc think the proposals will have a detrimental effect on the...

Over 100 years to house council waiting list

28.01.2019

Laura Edgar

CPRE | England | Housing | Rural | social housing

It would take 130 years to house those people waiting on social housing waiting lists at the current rate of building, analysis suggests.

Green belt may hold key to unlocking the UK’s housing woes

17.01.2019

Sarah Clinch

If we're serious about building homes where they are most needed, we'll need to consider giving up a small portion of the green belt, says Sarah Clinch.

Government scraps cap on local authority borrowing to help boost housebuilding

03.10.2018

Martin Read

The prime minister has announced that the government is scrapping the cap on local authority borrowing to fund new housing development.

Loss of green areas increases by 58%, CPRE says

04.06.2018

Laura Edgar

Analysis by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has suggested that the amount of farmland, forests, gardens and greenfield land lost to housing development each year has increased by 58 per cent.

Brownfield registers show land for a million homes

12.02.2018

Huw Morris

At least one million homes could be built on brownfield land, with more than two-thirds of them deliverable within five years.

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Brownfield registers don’t consider small sites – CPRE

12.12.2017

Laura Edgar

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has said brownfield land registers are failing to record the small plots that could deliver an extra 188,734 homes across the country.

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