First timers need savings help
Almost 80% of Britons believe the government should encourage first-time homebuyers to start saving regularly by establishing a national deposit savings scheme…
Review team to help get planning process ready for economic upturn announced by Minister
Experts from business, the public and third sectors have been chosen to help review the planning application process to make sure it is ready to support sustai…
Man of the house
John Healey is the latest in a long line of Labour housing ministers ? and he plans to stay in the job long enough to solve Britain?s housing problems ?It is …
Room to breed: Spacious new homes designed for families are back in fashion
Property booms don't always mean better housing. In fact, when the market was rocketing, the standard of new homes plummeted almost in equal measure as develop…
Construction jobs to gain from £10m scheme
The UK government?s Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has announced plans to inject ?10m of funding into stalled housing projects across the country. The aim …
Give councils freedom to build homes
From Sir Steve Bullock and others. Sir, Today, peers will discuss removing the cap on local authority housing deb
Shapps: we'll be a nation of builders
09/10/2009 | By Caroline Thorpe, Philippa Ward The Conservatives will attempt to position themselves as the party that will turn Britain into a ?nation of hou…
Million home backlog expected by 2010
Housing production has hit an 80 year low and could take seven years to recover. The shortfall in new homes for 2009 could fill a city the size of Nottingham,…
29/09/2009: Unite: Meeting Housing Need: Building Britain out of recession
Meeting Housing Need: Building Britain out of recession
Planning approvals and house sales rise
Local authorities approved increasing numbers of residential planning applications in the last quarter of 2012 - al
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