Local Government Association

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has set out plans to provide long-term homes for those sleeping rough in England who have been taken off the streets during the coronvirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Research by the Local Government Association (LGA) suggests that communities have potentially lost out on 13,500 affordable homes in the past four years as a result of permitted development rules.

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).

The body representing councils is signalling an end to polarised arguments about housing development that blames slow building rates on planning authorities or developers land banking.