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Labour reverts housing department name change
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has announced that the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will drop ‘levelling up’ from its title, reverting to…
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Unveiling of Housing Revival: UK Government Pledges £1.5 billion for Regeneration Effort
The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have today revealed their progressive strategy for housing across England. The…
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Tougher flood checks required for new houses
Improved planning guidance to help councils consider flood risk will provide better flood protections for new homes, the Government has announced. The move aims to…
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Duty to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ to be extended to common areas
An extension of the requirement for landlords to allow ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their properties for the benefit of disabled tenants has been proposed by the…
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‘Ofsted-style’ inspections and unlimited fines for failing social landlords
Social housing landlords are to face more stringent regulation under a new proposed law introduced to Parliament this week. The Social Housing Regulation Bill is…
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Queen’s Speech contains only vague commitments to rental reform
Help for more people to own their own home ‘whilst enhancing the rights of those who rent’ was promised in the Queen’s Speech today. Setting…
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Thousands Of Affordable Houses Lost in Office-to-Residential Conversations
More than 18,000 affordable houses have been lost as a result of office-to-residential conversions under permitted development, the Local Government Association warns. A total of…
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Backlash against Gove’s cladding cost exclusion for landlords
Government plans to end the unsafe cladding scandal are based on lazy and false assumptions that individual landlords are property tycoons. So says the National…
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Government to boldly go on ten-year PRS mission
‘Levelling up’, as envisaged by the Government, requires abolition of Section 21 grounds for possession and cracking down on ‘rogue landlords’. This became clear in…
