Labour

New Labour leader announces his shadow cabinet

06.04.2020

Laura Edgar

Labour leader Keir Starmer, MP for Holborn and St Pancras, has appointed Thangham Debbonaire as the shadow housing secretary.

General election 2019: Labour promises 100,000 new council houses a year by 2024 and a Green Industrial Revolution

21.11.2019

Deborah Shrewsbury

The Labour Party calls its ‘manifesto of hope’, published ahead of the general election on 12 December, the ‘most radical and ambitious plan to transform our country in decades’ and promises ‘a green transformation’ of the economy.

Legal briefs: Stevenage launches legal challenge against local plan holding direction; Canterbury air quality case ruling

01.02.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 26 January-1 February, 2019

Labour Party Conference 2018 fringe events / RTPI

Collaboration emerges as a key theme at RTPI Labour fringe events

26.09.2018

Laura Edgar

The need for more and better collaboration between the public, private and third sectors emerged as a key topic from all three of the fringe events the RTPI held at the Labour Party Conference.

Labour government would set up housing department and second-home levy

24.09.2018

Laura Edgar

John Healey MP has told the Labour Party Conference that change is needed if people are to have a ‘safe, secure and affordable place they can call home’.

England round-up: Labour would link housing affordability to income; Integrating planning and transport key to Northern economy, says RTPI

20.04.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 14 April-20 April, 2018

Labour would link housing affordability to income

19.04.2018

Laura Edgar

A Labour government would redefine affordable housing, suspend the Right to Buy scheme and ‘transform’ the planning system so it has a ‘duty’ to deliver affordable housing.

RTPI holds events at Tory and Labour party conferences

05.10.2017

Laura Edgar

Politicians and stakeholders have heard how planning is delivering homes, ‘levelling the housing playing field’, and creating great places to live at the RTPI’s fringe events at the Conservative and Labour party conferences.

Corbyn: Houses ‘should not be for the speculative few’

27.09.2017

Laura Edgar

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced that his party will review social housing policy and propose a ‘radical’ programme of action.

Corbyn pledges major investment drive

25.09.2017

Huw Morris

A future Labour government will invest heavily in former mining communities to tackle poverty.

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