Articles tagged with: election
A raft of management changes have been announced by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) in a bid to reduce costs by around £2m a year.
Recently appointed housing minister Grant Shapps has been openly critical about the agency, questioning its effectiveness and running costs.
Today’s changes will reduce the number of …
Chancellor George Osborne plans to hold an emergency budget on 22 June, and will give more detail on his £6bn cuts plan next Monday.
Osborne said the “emergency Budget” would happen 42 days after the signing of the coalition agreement, in which the Liberal Democrats agreed to back the Conservatives’ “deep …
Investing money in new fit-for-purpose properties in order to dispose of surplus public property will be met with cynicism by politicians and local people, Bob Perry has said.
The president of the Association of Chief Estates surveyors told Public Property UK that the “Invest to Save” mantra would fail to be …
Regional planning strategies are likely to be abandoned whatever the outcome from the election, according to the president of the Planning Officers Society.
This morning, it emerged that a hung parliament is inevitable, meaning a coalition government between several parties will be formed.
Both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have said they …
As the three-way battle between the major parties reaches its climax, we give you a run down of policies that would affect public property after the election.
Labour: Keep steady
Efficiency savings
Labour wants to push ahead with cuts to property running costs, axe unneeded quangos and “sharply” reduce spending on consultants. It …
A war has broken out over the private finance initiative (PFI) in the election campaign.
Labour last week published a list of 750 schools it said would miss out on PFI-funded redevelopment and refurbishment if the Conservatives took power.
Labour wants to keep the funding mechanism that allows the government to defer …
Local councils would be able to include a competition test in their local plans under changes to the planning system proposed by the Conservative Party.
Conservative shadow planning minister Bob Neill, speaking at the Property Question Time event co-run by PublicPropertyUK.com and sister publication Property Week, said it would let councils …
The Conservative party has appointed an advisory group of property big-hitters including Mark Clare, chief executive of Barratt, Peter Nears, strategic planning director of Peel, and BPF chief Liz Peace.
The group of planning and property bosses, which is also understood to include representatives from the House Builders Federation, the Planning …
