Sajid Javid

Housing secretary Sajid Javid has published a consultation on proposals that aim to strengthen fire testing for cladding systems on residential buildings.

England’s chief planner will visit three of the 15 councils threatened with intervention for not compiling a local plan in order to assess whether the government should take over the process.

Housing secretary Sajid Javid has announced that £300 million is to be shared between Greater Manchester, the West of England, and Oxfordshire to deliver ‘thousands of much-needed’ new homes.

The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) will deliver a ‘simpler, more robust’ planning system in England, setting out ‘much clearer expectations’ for developers and local authorities, the housing secretary has promised.