The UK must grin and bear the coalition’s cuts in order to cut the deficit as Canada did during the 1990s, according to the former British high commissioner to Canada.
Speaking yesterday at the Public Property Summit in London, Sir Nicholas Bayne, who is also a fellow of the London School …

England’s regional development agencies have lost 424  staff in total since the general election in May, Public Property UK can reveal.
The bodies, which are due to be abolished by April 2012 and employ around 2,500 staff, have recently finished a first wave of voluntary redundancies and are set to cut …

Birmingham City Council is set lose 79 full-time posts as it merges its planning and regeneration departments into a single team.
Its plan will mean cutting the team by one third, and setting up smaller planning and regeneration teams based in different areas across the city. It means all staff in …

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has offered local authorities £55m over the next five years as part of a bid to encourage more localism in the planning system.
In a letter to councils, sent after yesterday’s Spending Review, Pickles gave details of how various grants would be distributed over the next five …

This week sees two significant dates that will affect planning and housebuilding in England for at least the next two years.
Today, the Comprehensive Spending Review set out the future for government and local government expenditure for the term of this Parliament.
And on Friday, CALA Group’s challenge to the government’s decision …

As property braces itself for the Comprehensive Spending Review, Nick Johnstone considers the repercussions of a “once-in-a-century” moment in government property policy.
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A scruffy 200,000 sq ft office block is about to come on to the market in Edinburgh. Its occupier, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is cutting costs …

Visit Public Property UK tomorrow to see, minute-by-minute, what experts from across the UK and the world think of tomorrow’s spending review.
This website’s homepage is hosting a live discussion, featuring news updates, Twitter posts and discussions about the Comprehensive Spending Review as it happens.
Join in online by returning to the …

Companies including Max Property, Hammerson, and Mitie have given public backing to the £83bn  cuts due to be announced by chancellor George Osborne on Wednesday.
Max Property chair Nick Leslau (pictured) and Hammerson chair John Nelson today signed a statement, along with 33 other industry bosses, claiming that private sector job …

What it is: The Cabinet Office has published a list of almost 500 quangos it is either going to axe, merge or reform.
When it came out: 14 October 2010
Why it is important: The reform of quangos plays a significant part of the government’s plan to save money and improve government …

Prime minister David Cameron has pledged to follow the property recommendations in Topshop founder Sir Philip Green’s efficiency review.
Speaking after the report was published yesterday afternoon, Cameron slated the “crazy decisions” made on property and IT by the government in the past decade.
Green’s three-month long review found that the government …