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Housing in, social care out? why Wednesday’s budget may be a series of half measures It seems that housing will be front and centre of Wednesday’s Budget. And rightly so. Our inability to house our growing population has been a...
At the Conservative Party Conference last month, Demos hosted an event with the social housing provider Orbit regarding their role is helping their tenants with younger children tackle poverty, identify routes to employment, build social networks and resilience, and other...
In his speech yesterday, the Prime Minister suggested more people owning their own homes should be a measure of his Government’s success in creating a ‘Greater Britain’. In so doing, he appeared to accept the terms of the deal on...
Before coming to power, and in the early years of the last Parliament, the Government made much of its commitment to localism. Critics called the Localism Bill a ‘NIMBY’s charter’ that would allow small groups to block developments, and exacerbate...
The Government’s localism agenda has changed the planning system in a number of important ways over the last five years. Regional Spatial Strategies, which many Conservatives perceived as too prescriptive and top-down, were abolished, with new neighbourhood planning powers offered...
Amber Rudd, the new Energy Secretary, has set out her plans to fulfil the Conservatives’ manifesto commitment to end subsidies for onshore wind, and to give local communities the final say on new windfarm applications. Rudd, a junior Energy Minister...
