Help To Buy

02.04.2020

Help to Buy will be with us for a while, because its take-up is concentrated in constituencies that are newly Conservative following the last General Election. Taking away the benefit from freshly blue...

News in brief: RTPI awards two members fellowships; Climate response outlined by national park authority

03.12.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 3 December, 2019

Shared home ownership to be reviewed

29.08.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Help To Buy | Housing | robert jenrick | shared ownership

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that the government will review a new national model for shared ownership to make it easier for people to buy more of their own home.

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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.

Not all Help to Buy beneficiaries needed help, shows report

13.06.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Help To Buy | Housing | mhclg | national audit office

The Help to Buy equity loan scheme has increased home ownership and housing supply, according to a National Audit Office report, however, many of those who used the scheme could have bought a home without it.

England round-up: Hayes introduces land compensation bill to Parliament; England-only post Brexit environmental watchdog flawed

01.03.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 23 February-1 March, 2019

News in brief: £1.3bn bailout for Crossrail; Disused shredded wheat factory plans approved

11.12.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 11 December, 2018

North West tops Help to Buy completions

16.08.2018

Laura Edgar

New statistics suggest that the highest proportion of property completions under the Help to Buy: ISA scheme was in the North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, and the West Midlands.

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News in brief: 158,000 Help to Buy loan properties; Application submitted to redevelop Oxted car parks

01.05.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 1 May, 2018

News in brief: Public realm study for Oxford; Birmingham skyscraper application submitted

03.10.2017

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 3 October, 2017

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