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Labour leader Ed Miliband has appointed former housing minister Caroline Flint (pictured) as shadow communities and local government secretary.
Flint was appointed to Gordon Brown’s cabinet as housing and planning minister in 2008, before becoming minister of state for Europe. She resigned the position in 2009.
Alan Johnson has been appointed shadow …
The government is falling short on more than half of the targets for housing and planning imposed by the previous administration, show official documents published today.
The annual reports for 2009-10, published by the Department for Communities and Local Government, show that the UK is failing to hit its annual housing …
The HCA London Board, which is chaired by the mayor, has pledged to commit more than £51.7m of investment for 16 housing and regeneration schemes, which will deliver 518 affordable homes in the capital.
The schemes, which were part of the previous government’s housing pledge, have been at risk because of …
Council leaders in London have failed to reach agreement with Boris Johnson’s office on his proposal to devolve key development powers to the mayor of London.
It emerged today that after consultation with London boroughs and the London Assembly, proposals made in June to hand powers over the London Development Agency …
Former housing minister John Healey has written to the government admitting that the existing planning system, introduced under Labour, is too centralised.
In an open letter to work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, sent this week, Labour MP Healey said new housing was essential to the jobs market and warned …
Housing minister Grant Shapps (pictured) has warned of a £760m hole in the Communities and Local Government budget that will put 150 social housing projects at risk.
Shapps said around 150 social housing projects are under threat because around half of an extra £1.5bn for building 20,000 homes, pledged by former …
Labour won 420 new seats and took overall control of 16 councils in the local elections that took place alongside last Thursday’s general election.
The results, where counting finished over the weekend, reveal a large swing in favour of Labour councillors, with most losses sustained by the Conservatives and the Liberal …
Labour have gained 85 seats in UK councils following yesterday’s local elections in 164 local authorities.
Results already declared give Labour new overall control of councils in Liverpool, Coventry, Doncaster and Enfield, and show an improvement of 85 seats on previous elections among the 56 seats already declared.
So far, the Conservatives …
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 …
