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Brandon Lewis promoted to housing and planning minister

16/07/2014

Brandon Lewis has been appointed housing and planning minister following the latest government reshuffle. Lewis, Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth, had previously been a parliamentary under-sec...

House builders call for stability after Carney warns on housing market

19/05/2014

Housebuilders have warned the Help to Buy scheme remains critical to boosting housing supply, after the governor of the Bank of England said an overheating market was the biggest risk to recovery....

Race starts for £525m small housing scheme funding

29/04/2014

The Government has paved the way for local house builders to start preparing bids for a slice of £525m available funding to get small housing schemes off the ground. Bids will be inv...

Chancellor puts housing at the heart of recovery plan

19/03/2014

Chancellor George Osborne today laid out fresh plans to build an extra 200,000 homes. He acknowledged the important role smaller developers play in delivering housing with a new £500m fund...

Labour's 'Help to Build' plan to galvanise smaller house builders

18/03/2014

The Labour Party has floated plans to offer a Help to Build guarantee scheme to bring an army of smaller house builders back into the market. Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said the provision of gua...

An £11bn investment in construction can kick start the UK’s economic recovery, say experts

An £11.27bn investment in construction and a series of strategic decisions around new home building can kick start the UK’s economic recovery and deliver a £33bn return for the Gover

Million Homes not Built

Analysis by the Local Government Association shows that 2,564,600 units have been granted planning permission by councils since 2009/10 while only 1,530,680 have been completed. The association sai

“Britain had been incapable of building enough homes”

This has been a great week for the “Get Britain Building Campaign” with the Government setting out a number of initiatives to ensure we build the homes we need for the future. The

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