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News report: Uncertainty casts shadow over major schemes

28.06.2017

Huw Morris

Does the new government bode well for planning? There could be trouble ahead, finds Huw Morris

England round-up: Indoor air quality is ‘a planning issue’; S106 agreement for Kent garden suburb signed

09.06.2017

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 3 June-9 June, 2017

General Election 2017: Planning minister Barwell loses his seat

09.06.2017

Laura Edgar

The general election has resulted in the UK Government looking for a new housing and planning minister following Gavin Barwell's defeat to Labour in his Croydon Central constituency.

General Election 2017: Barwell admits social rent homes would be let at 'affordable' rent levels

05.06.2017

Laura Edgar

Conservatives | England | gavin barwell | Housing | social rent

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has admitted that a ‘new generation’ of homes for social rent, promised early in the campaign, will be let at 'affordable' rent levels.

Planning at the crossroads

20.04.2017

David Blackman

In the final part of our series looking at the relationship between contemporary planning and politics, David Blackman finds planning at a crossroads — but with a swell of voices anticipating its...

It's good to talk: An interview with Gavin Barwell

06.04.2017

Martin Read

This is the first time in more than three years that a serving planning minister has agreed to an interview with The Planner. And whatever your political persuasion, it would be difficult to deny...

Government launches brownfield registers

03.04.2017

Laura Edgar

Housing and planning minister Gavin Barwell has announced that local authorities across England will now have to produce and maintain up-to-date registers listing all brownfield sites available for housing.

Over a million used Help to Buy

30.03.2017

Laura Edgar

More than 868,000 have opened a Help to Buy ISA while at least 259,000 people have bought a home using another of the government’s Help to Buy schemes, according to government statistics.

Housing starts rose in 2016

23.02.2017

Laura Edgar

England | gavin barwell | Housing | housing starts | lga

The number of new homes that have started to be built rose by 5 per cent in 2016, according to government statistics.

England round-up: New enterprise zone launched in East Midlands; Right to Build task force is launched

17.02.2017

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 11 February-17 February, 2017

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