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Housing Minister Grant Shapps today announced Government plans to give councils more financial freedoms to improve, buy and build new housing…
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Figures being published today show how the country’s ‘small business capitals’ are benefiting from dedicated double tax breaks, Local Government…
Communities minister Andrew Stunell has today announced three appointments to the Board of West Northamptonshire Development Corporation, the…
Andrew Stunell responds in full to an article in the Sunday Telegraph suggesting that the Government’s planning reforms put the Green Belt in…
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles today introduced new planning measures to support the expansion of popular state schools and the creation…
Contrary to what Terence Blacker says (5 August), the status of the countryside is unchanged in the draft National Planning Policy Framework…
Community Pubs Minister Bob Neill attends the country’s biggest beer festival.
Olympic Legacy minister Bob Neill has visited Weymouth and Portland to see the improvements the area is benefitting from thanks to the 2012 …
As part of the Government’s commitment to the Great British pub, Community Pubs Minister Bob Neill today launched a review of restrictive covenants…
Eleven conservation projects pass first round of Heritage Lottery Fund programme.
A new ‘Planning Guarantee’ will create greater certainty for local communities by speeding up local planning applications that get stuck in …
John Penrose protects Capital’s ‘hidden heritage’
Heritage Minister John Penrose protects Capital’s ‘hidden heritage’.
The Department for Communities and Local Government responds to incorrect claims by the National Trust that reforms of the planning system will…
Interns working at the Department for Communities and Local Government meet the Deputy Prime Minister.
A new, simpler framework for the planning system that safeguards the environment while meeting the need for sustainable growth has been published…
Dame Jenny Abramsky reappointed as Chair of The National Heritage Memorial Fund for a further 3 years.
Coastal communities across the United Kingdom will receive a multi-million pound boost each year from a new Coastal Communities.
Communities Minister visits Eden Valley in Cumbria.
Grant Shapps has today welcomed a new action plan for the self build industry that he says could be the turning point that takes it to the masses…
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