Local Government Association
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21.08.2019children | England | homeless | homelessness | Housing | Local Government Association | permitted development | Shelter | shipping containerThere is an estimated 210,000 children in England that do not have a safe home, a report out today has suggested.
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01.07.2019affordable housing | affordable rent | Economic Growth | England | first-time buyers | Housing | Local Government Association | young peopleYoung 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).
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09.08.2018Controversial plans to cap benefits for supported housing tenants and fund schemes through local authority ‘top-up’ grants have been scrapped.
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09.08.2018The 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.
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11.06.2018The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that the ability of English councils to replace homes sold under Right to Buy ‘will all but be eliminated within five years’, unless the scheme undergoes major reform.
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05.12.2017alok sharma | Bristol | England | garden villages | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Local Government Association | Right to Build | second homes | UKA round-up of planning news: Tuesday 5 December, 2017
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01.12.2017Economic Growth | Local Government Association | local planning authority | Northern Ireland | Planning Advisory Service | Planning Business Management | planning performance | Policy & PoliticsAnna Rose MRTPI aims to challenge the status quo of local government thinking. The new head of the Planning Advisory Service tells Huw Morris about growth, good performance and female role models
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21.08.2017If the current rate of housebuilding and replacement continues, the average new home in England will have to last for 2,000 years, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.
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24.10.2016Central and local government need to work together to provide local areas with the powers to replace every council home sold, with councils retaining Right to Buy receipts, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said.
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22.08.2016Campaigning & Advocacy | Clive Betts | communities and local government committee | homelessness | Housing | Local Government Association | UKCouncils offer “ineffectual and meaningless” advice to vulnerable people, with the scale of homelessness such that a renewed government strategy is “a must”, say MPs.
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