Skip to main content
House building

News and communications

472 results sorted by Updated (newest)
  • Today the Government is publishing a further group of reports presenting the findings from research projects commissioned by the previous …

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bob Neill responds to an article in The Independent  that claims the Government is not supportive of land auctions. How to afford more homes…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today announced Government plans to release enough public land to build as many as 100,000 new, much-needed…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today called on communities to start laying the foundations for the future developments they would like to…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • For every two families needing a home in this country, there is one property standing empty. It has been a determination of mine for a long…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Communities Minister Andrew Stunell today launched two new online toolkits to help local councils and communities better identify the empty …

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps has said that members of the Armed Forces will, from now on, be given top priority for housing help. The dramatic…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps today welcomed new figures that show the country is starting to build more homes again, following the devastating…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Communities Minister Andrew Stunell today described the 300,000 long term empty homes in England as a scandal with four million people stranded…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps today announced a £30 million lifeline to families trapped in abandoned streets due to stalled large scale housing…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Transcript of the speech as delivered. This is the first time I’ve been to Grand Designs - it’s impressive. I should have expected nothing…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today announced that the Government will ‘put its money where its mouth is’ and help more people to realise…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • In a major effort to boost housing supply, dormant offices will be unshackled from a bureaucratic planning system so they can be transformed…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today offered developers a Build Now, Pay Later deal to get work started on thousands of new homes without…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today “locked the door” on squatters’ rights for good, by strengthening the Government’s advice to homeowners…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today called on architects and housebuilders to “think outside the identikit Legoland box” and make sure their…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister Grant Shapps today unveiled the pioneer project that will pave the way for the green transformation of Britain’s social homes…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Grant Shapps calls on youth campaigners to contact their town hall to see what plans their council has to use this new government cash.

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bulletin about the English housing survey.

  • Homes posturing ignores reforms From Grant Shapps MP. Sir, The National Housing Federation is once again true to form with its cynical posturing…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government