Residential planning & policy

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  Court of Appeal delivers blow to Adler’s €6bn debt restructuring plan

  2024-01-24T12:28:00+00:00By Jamie Bennett-Ness

  Lower court’s approval for restructuring to save German property group from insolvency is overruled

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  Experts warns mooted 99% mortgage scheme would be unaffordable

  2024-01-23T17:04:00+00:00By Ciaran Nerval

  Government plan to help first-time buyers could spur house price inflation, industry figures say.

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  Grenfell insulation firm Kingspan ‘gives capitalism a bad name’, says Gove

  2024-01-22T14:20:00+00:00By Jamie Bennett-Ness

  Housing secretary accuses Grenfell Tower-linked company of “trying to wiggle out of their responsibilities”.

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  ‘Foolhardy’ DfT ends safeguarding of land for axed HS2 route

  2024-01-18T17:03:00+00:00By Jamie Bennett-Ness

  Restrictions preventing the development of land for Phase 2a of HS2 have been removed, the transport secretary has announced.

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  Gove launches consultation on Awaab’s Law

  2024-01-09T00:01:00+00:00By Ciaran Nerval

  Housing secretary Michael Gove has launched the long-awaited consultation on ’Awaab’s Law’, seeking views on proposed new requirements to clamp down on rogue social landlords, requiring them to address health and safety hazards within 14 days.

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  Family Building Society calls for downsizing elderly to be exempt from stamp duty

  2024-01-08T15:41:00+00:00By Ciaran Nerval

  The Family Building Society (FBS) has called for elderly people looking to downsize their properties to be exempt from stamp duty land tax, in a move to support first-time buyers and families onto the housing ladder.

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  Rapleys’ Jonathan Harper on the impact of the long-awaited NPPF

  2024-01-04T07:00:00+00:00By Jonathan Harper

  Alongside the National Planning Policy Framework’s (NPPF’s) release, housing secretary Michael Gove announced that there would be consequences for councils who did not progress local plans and issued a directive to seven authorities who had not submitted a plan for examination since 2004. Whether this will translate into more authorities ...

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  Government releases first tranche of £110m nutrient neutrality funding

  2023-12-20T13:06:00+00:00By Lewis Berrill

  The government has released the first tranche of £110m in funding to help local planning authorities, constrained by EU nutrient neutrality laws, build new homes.

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  Gove unveils long awaited NPPF, scrapping greenfield allocation and promising crackdown on planning delays

  2023-12-19T13:17:00+00:00By Ciaran Nerval

  Housing secretary Michael Gove has today (19 December) unveiled the government’s long-awaited new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), promising to crack down on planning delays and scrapping the requirement for local authorities to allocate greenfield land to meet housing targets.

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