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Measures to help the construction industry boost building and return to work safely will be introduced this week.

• Updated: 22 June 2020

Homes England has agreed a £61 million investment with developer Urban&Civic to begin the delivery of 6,500 homes at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire.

• Updated: 28 May 2020

The Housing Secretary on the government’s response to COVID-19 and the plan to safely restart, reopen and renew the housing market.

• Updated: 13 May 2020

Letter from the Housing Secretary to the Mayor of London on the need for an improved London Plan that meets London’s housing needs.

• Updated: 13 March 2020

The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission's report – Living with beauty – supports the creation of more beautiful communities.

• Updated: 30 January 2020

The £1 billion guarantee scheme set-up by the government ensures enough credit is available to allow smaller housebuilders to enter the market.

• Updated: 29 January 2020

Speech given by the Minister of State for Housing at Legal & General’s modular housing factory.

• Updated: 24 January 2020

Housing Minister Esther McVey visits Legal & General Modular factory in Leeds.

• Updated: 16 January 2020

Mark Farmer to be the new Champion for Modern Methods of Construction.

• Updated: 5 November 2019

Speech given by the Housing Minister at the property industry conference.

• Updated: 5 November 2019

The Housing Secretary's speech at Policy Exchange and Create Streets.

• Updated: 23 October 2019

Local data to be released to help the property sector unlock land and unleash the potential of home builders.

• Updated: 21 October 2019

Department for Education offering loans to housing developers to boost new house and school building momentum

• Updated: 10 October 2019

Over 170,000 new homes were built for the year ending June 2019.

• Updated: 3 October 2019

A new green standard for new build homes will bring an environmental revolution to home building.

• Updated: 1 October 2019

Speech given by the Minister of State for Housing at the convention for the residential property sector.

• Updated: 16 September 2019

Letter from MHCLG and BEIS to the Built Environment Sector Deal Champion, confirming the government will open formal negotiations on a Built Environment Sector Deal.

• Updated: 22 July 2019

Developers have been ordered to do more to protect Britain’s cherished wildlife.

• Updated: 21 July 2019

Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission publishes interim report.

• Updated: 9 July 2019

The money will be spent on widening bridges, building roads and connecting utilities so up to 8,500 properties can be built.

• Updated: 11 June 2019