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Statement by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles about changes to the publication of DCLG statistics.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Statement by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles on housing and growth.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has approved a new measure that will increase the number of homes in town centres and help increase footfall…
Communities Minister Andrew Stunell said: “The Green Belt provides an important protection against urban sprawl, providing a ‘green lung…
Expert brokers will spearhead a fresh drive to get stalled housing deals up and running and builders back on moth-balled sites, Communities …
Statement by Baroness Hanham on the abolition of regional strategies
Further moves to simplify the planning system and make it more accessible to people in communities were set out today by Planning Minister Greg…
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles raised the flag of the Falkland Islands today outside the Department for Communities and Local Government…
Mr Speaker I would like to make a statement about planning policy. I am delighted today to be publishing the National Planning Policy Framework…
A new, simplified planning framework that better supports growth and helps creates the homes and jobs that the country needs, puts unprecedented…
Government issues new planning guidance on traveller sites Local Government Minister Bob Neill has published a radically streamlined planning…
The one millionth planning application has been processed by the Government’s planning resource website, a site that has now delivered savings…
Communities Minister Andrew Stunell today (7 January 2012) announced the successful bids for £60 million of funding that will provide hundreds…
Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark today welcomed a Select Committee report that showed people supported the concept of a streamlined planning…
A Government spokesman said: “We have no plans to change Green Belt protection. It plays a valuable role in stopping urban sprawl. But we…
An era of Whitehall control has ended with a historic shift in power back to local people, as the Localism Bill becomes law.
Pressure to build on the Green Belt is being removed with the revocation of Regional Plans according to environmental assessments published …
The Department responds to an article in the Telegraph raising concerns that the presumption in favour of sustainable development will threaten…
The Department responds to claims in The Sunday Times that the National Planning Policy Framework will result in advertising billboards &lsquo…
The Department responds to an article in the Observer claiming that the National Planning Policy Framework will weaken the provision of affordable…
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