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Angela Rayner told new towns plan risks missing England housing targets

Exclusive: Centre for Cities analysis shows more new towns would have to be built than ever before to dent 1.5m target

The Guardian - UK

John Swinney challenges Angela Rayner on Winter Fuel Payment cut in Edinburgh meeting

JOHN Swinney confronted Angela Rayner over Labour’s cuts to pensioner benefits during a meeting in Edinburgh.

The National (Scotland)

OPINION - Should we eat into England's green and pleasant land or make our cities taller? I know my choice

We are in desperate need of new homes — a fact on which Brits tend to agree. They tend to disagree, though, over where to put them, and these battles generally concentrate on the edges of cities. Take the Government’s new plan to build on grey-belt land — “poor quality…

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Sadiq Khan scheme built just 71 affordable homes in three months and needs to start 22,000 more to hit 2026 target

Tories acuse London mayor of ‘unacceptably low’ levels of affordable housebuilding in capital

The Independent UK

Planning changed Britain for the better in the postwar years – and it can do the same now

Labour’s proposals for reform are a start, but we need the system to be more ambitious, more imaginative and more proactive, says writer Phineas Harper

The Guardian - UK

No government in half a century has built 300,000 homes every year, but that’s what Labour wants to do now

The election of the Labour government has been accompanied by a renewed appetite to deal with England’s housing crisis. Among the first of its policy initiatives, announced by deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, is the reintroduction of a national housing target – 1.5 million new homes over the period of…

The Conversation

Say it loud and rejoice: the days of anti-union worker exploitation in Britain are coming to an end

We’re getting back the employment rights snatched by the Tories. That could change life for millions of people, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

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Labour prepares to limit landowners’ gains from sale of green belt land amid push for new homes

The planned move comes as part of the government’s plan to overhaul the planning system and build 1.5 million new homes by 2030

The Independent UK

Ending two-child cap would 'lift lots of kids out of poverty', Labour minister admits

REMOVING the two-child cap on benefits would "lift a lot of children out of poverty” and Labour could have scrapped it, a UK Government…

The National (Scotland)

Cracks in Angela Rayner’s plan for a housing revolution

Letters: David Woollcombe points out the crucial need for infrastructure to be built alongside new homes. Plus letters from Dr Stephen Battersby, Tony Ingham and Martin Large

The Guardian - UK

Unions welcome scrapping of Tories’ ‘spiteful’ minimum service law

Senior figures praise repeal of law but privately some want full workers’ rights overhaul implemented without delay

The Guardian - UK

Ignore the Livids of Tunbridge Wells and build homes, but build them well

Labour’s plans to ease the housing crisis should focus on quality as much as quantity

The Guardian - UK

Labour axes ‘gimmick’ anti-strike law as it plans major reset for workers’ rights

Memo tells ministers to disregard minimum service levels rules, as part of reforms to reorder industrial relations

The Guardian - UK

Not in the minister’s back yard: is Starmer’s cabinet onboard with housebuilding plans?

The manifesto promises 1.5m homes – but some on the PM’s frontbench have had their own nimby moments

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The Independent UK

Revealed: What are Labour’s housebuilding plans near you?

Labour has increased housebuilding targets almost everywhere in the UK

The Independent UK

Property giant warns ministers of the real cost of achieving housing targets

Exclusive: Boss of Berkeley Group calls for more money to be invested in housebuilding – and less diverted to potholes – as he reveals he is buying land for the first time in two and a half years

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s ‘grey belt’ plans could result in isolated communities, warns leading architect

Exclusive: Muyiwa Oki, president of the RIBA, says new estates must be high quality and have access to shops, schools, transport and green space

The Independent UK

Housing targets cut for Cabinet members’ constituencies despite push for 370,000 new homes

Angela Rayner unveiled a major overhaul of the planning system last week, which will see all councils in England given new, mandatory housing targets

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Evening Standard

Home Office considers proscribing English Defence League under terror laws after Southport riot

Angela Rayner says ‘thuggish behaviour’ has ‘absolutely no place in our democracy’

The Guardian - UK

Former counter-terror chief accuses Farage of inciting Southport violence

Neil Basu says Reform UK leader is ‘creating conspiracy theories’ by questioning whether truth is being ‘withheld’

The Guardian - UK

Planning changes will not mean ‘load of ugly houses’, says Rayner

Deputy PM promises more GP surgeries, roads and schools as she unveils England’s housebuilding targets

Evening Standard

What is the 'grey belt' and what are Labour's housing plans for it?

Angela Rayner says the plans ‘won’t be without controversy’ but will make housing more affordable

The Guardian - UK

Uk politics: Voters want MPs to swear allegiance to their constituents, not to king, poll suggests – as it happened

Polling for the Republic campaign group says only 11% of voters want MPs to pledge allegiance to the monarch

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s housing proposals: revolutionary intent

Editorial: Social housing must be at the forefront of a new, more aggressive approach to solving Britain’s chronic shortage of homes

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner’s planning ‘revolution’ slashes housebuilding target for London

Government officials said London’s target would fall from 100,000 homes per year to 80,000

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