House building

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Services

• Natural England’s nutrient mitigation scheme for developers

  Apply to buy nutrient mitigation credits from Natural England to offset nutrient pollution from housing development.

• Pre-planning application enquiry form (preliminary opinion)

  Use this form to request pre-planning application advice.

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Guidance and regulation

• Help to Build: Making building your own home more affordable
  • Guidance
  • 27 June 2022
  • Homes England
• Levelling Up Home Building Fund - development finance
  • Detailed guide
  • 3 October 2024
  • Homes England
• Nutrient neutrality: update
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 March 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Designated Protected Areas
  • Guidance
  • 3 May 2024
  • Homes England
• Criteria for determining the procedure for planning, enforcement, advertisement and discontinuance notice appeals
  • Guidance
  • 5 August 2024
  • Planning Inspectorate

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News and communications

• £47 million to unlock 28,000 nutrient neutrality stalled homes
  • 7 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release
• Investors, developers, and local and national government leaders unite to drive forward ambitions to create 1.5 million homes across this Parliament
  • 6 November 2024
  • Homes England
  • Press release
• Leading expert appointed to turbocharge Euston housebuilding
  • 31 October 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Press release
• Government commits to addressing housebuilding recommendations
  • 22 October 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Competition and Markets Authority
  • Press release
• Levelling Up Home Building Fund: Esquire Developments Ltd
  • 17 October 2024
  • Homes England
  • Case study

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Research and statistics

• Live tables on housing supply: indicators of new supply
  • 27 September 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Statistical data set
• Housing supply: indicators of new supply, England: April to June 2024
  • 27 September 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • National statistics
• Median House Price and Sales Volume update - Housing affordability in England and Wales: 2023
  • 25 September 2024
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• Housing supply: indicators of new supply, England: January to March 2024
  • 27 June 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • National statistics
• Measuring progress towards one million homes
  • 24 May 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• UK government response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s market study into housebuilding
  • 22 October 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Policy paper
• Policy statement on new towns
  • 31 July 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Policy paper
• Update from MHCLG on targets on the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme
  • 30 July 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Policy paper
• A vision for Leeds: a decade of city centre growth and wider prosperity
  • 6 March 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper
• Government response to the independent review into scaling up self-build and custom housebuilding
  • 24 June 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Industry Competence Committee (ICC) terms of reference
  • 24 October 2024
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • Transparency
• Housebuilding market study final report
  • 26 February 2024
  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • Corporate report
• Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026 summary
  • 11 December 2023
  • Homes England
  • Transparency
• Homes England Annual Report & Financial Statements 2018/19
  • 3 February 2022
  • Homes England
  • Corporate report
• Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 to 2021 summary
  • 17 January 2022
  • Homes England
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Homes England
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• HM Treasury
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

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• Cabinet Office
• Planning Inspectorate
• Department for Transport
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• Department for Education
• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Ministry of Defence
• Ministry of Justice

• Competition and Markets Authority
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Environment Agency
• Natural England