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Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a £1.6 billion fund will be established to boost growth in places that have not benefitted from the ‘proceeds of growth in the same way as more prosperous parts of the country’.

Prime Minister Theresa May has announced £2 billion in funding for housing associations in an bid to give them the ‘long-term certainty’ they need to have a ‘central’ role in helping to address the housing crisis.

The government’s economic subcommittee has backed plans for a third runway at London Heathrow Airport. Plans were then approved by Prime Minister Theresa May’s full cabinet.

Professionals from across the planning and housing industry have responded to revisions proposed for the National Planning Policy Framework (NNPF), with some broadly in support of measures and others disappointed, stating that they do not go far enough.