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What is grey belt land and what is the green belt? Sir Keir Starmer announces plan to transform house building

‘Builders and not blockers’ approach for government in house-building push

Evening Standard · Dec 13, 2024

Government Ministers Spend £130k in Six Months on Refurbishing Offices

Ministers have spent £130,000 on redecorating their offices since coming to power in July.

International Business Times UK · Dec 13, 2024

Homes ‘top priority’ as Government reforms to allow more building on green belt

A shake-up of planning rules means councils have been given mandatory targets to deliver a total of 370,000 homes a year in England.

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

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Labour pledges 370,00 new homes per year as housing target increases by over 20%

Labour housing minister Matthew Pennycook confirmed his party’s commitment to building more than 1.5m new homes in the UK over the next five years.

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024

Why have changes been made to planning policy and what are they?

The Government said it will intervene if councils do not co-operate fully in a push to deliver 1.7 million new homes.

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024

Housebuilding set to surge by 60% as Rayner faces backlash over plans to ‘bulldoze’ countryside

Prime minister Keir Starmer has insisted building more homes is more important than the environment, saying houses have to be ‘the top priority’

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024

Greenbelt should be in sights of councils that ‘max out’ brownfield land for housing, minister says

The Government is ‘absolutely willing’ to take a local plan away from councils that refuse to meet homebuilding targets, Matthew Pennycook warned

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

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Government willing to step in if authorities refuse to plan for housing targets

The Government is ‘absolutely willing’ to take over if local authorities refuse to put plans in place to meet housing targets.

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

National Trust attacks Labour’s green belt housing plan

The conservation charity says Angela Rayner’s push to speed up home building could taint urban ‘oases’ of greenery

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024

Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis, says Starmer

Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2024

Starmer vows to put ‘builders not blockers first’ with changes to planning rules

Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer have set out changes to councils’ housebuilding targets which could see green belt land developed.

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

Angela Rayner forces councils to surrender green belt with immediate new housing targets

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has promised to build 1.5 million new homes over five years to fix the housing crisis

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024

More than 150 apartment block residents face eviction after no fault notices served weeks before Christmas

Exclusive: Residents at Vive Living Childers Street in Deptford have been served with a Section 21 eviction notice

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2024

Moby-Dick reading marathon pioneers

Brief letters: Stars reading a whale of a tale | Horrible Histories progenitor | Farage fallouts | For efts’ sake

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2024

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International Business Times UK · Dec 11, 2024

Public Outcry as Angela Rayner Defends £68,000 Photographer: 'Good for Democracy' or Wasteful?

Deputy PM Angela Rayner defends hiring a £68,000 taxpayer-funded photographer, igniting controversy over government spending.

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2024

Downing Street: We must overhaul planning system in order to hit house targets

The Government has set out plans to build 1.5 million homes and make 150 planning decisions on major infrastructure projects.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2024

Shabana Mahmood suggests ministers will override objections to new prisons

Justice secretary says lack of cells ‘is of more concern’ than people’s worries about jails being built near their homes

Evening Standard · Dec 10, 2024

Plan for new Chinese 'super-embassy' opposite Tower of London rejected by council

The authority’s verdict is only advisory, as the final decision will lie with Deputy PM Angela Rayner in the new year

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The Independent UK · Dec 10, 2024

Photographer ‘trying to strike balance’ of job, says Rayner

The Deputy Prime Minister was speaking about her experiences of the first few months in office.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2024

Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy

People should have a say in their surroundings. But in its bid to build 1.5m homes, the government has left them powerless, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2024

Angela Rayner denies her housebuilding plan will undermine local democracy: ‘I don’t like failure’

Angela Rayner warned ‘I don’t like failure’ as she plans to tear up the powers of councils to block developments and pushes for 1.5 million new homes to be built

Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2024

Rayner ‘knows people impatient for change’ amid fall in support for Labour

The Deputy Prime Minister pointed to ‘significant challenges’ faced by the Government since the election.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2024

Prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy, says Angela Rayner

Housing secretary says wildlife should be protected but not at the expense of building the homes the country needs

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2024

Keir Starmer welcomes collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s ‘barbaric regime’

UK prime minister calls for civilians in Syria to be protected after rebel forces take control of Damascus

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2024

‘I hate failure’: Angela Rayner remains defiant over Labour’s new homes target

Angela Rayner insisted “I hate failure” as she remained defiant over Labour’s new homes target.

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