All Policy articles – Page 72
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NewsLack of homes for older people prevents vital downsizing
Reports predicts 13m spare rooms in older people’s homes by 2040 due to lack of options to move
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NewsLabour calls for inquiry into ‘biased’ Westferry approval
Demand comes as details of meeting between secretary of state and media mogul behind scheme emerge
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NewsConstruction leaders group calls for Help to Buy extension
Call for extension to December completion cut-off comes as part of construction industry’s post-covid recovery plan
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NewsGLA loans private developer £50m to build quicker
London mayor Sadiq Khan agrees loan to accelerate construction of 2,000 homes by Mount Anvil
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NewsEmployers to start paying part of furloughed workers' wages from September
But firms will have to start paying NI and pension costs from August
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NewsBusinesses to pay a fifth of furloughed workers’ wages
Chancellor will today unveil change to job-saving initiative to take effect from August
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NewsA quarter of housing sites have restarted
Exclusive data shows that covid crisis is keeping a third of sites shut despite government pressure to restart work
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NewsCovid recovery plan for construction due next week
Construction Leadership Council heading up initiative
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NewsHomes England invests £61m in Cambridgeshire new town
Urban Civic’s claims 6,500-home Waterbeach scheme the largest project to start since onset of covid pandemic
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NewsHuge Westferry permission quashed due to Secretary of State ‘bias’
Media mogul’s scheme for 1,524 homes has had controversial permission rescinded after legal challenge
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NewsCall for ‘new Cabe’ to oversee urban development
Decades of systemic failure requires design quality unit, says Place Alliance
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NewsFormer housing minister Gavin Barwell to work at Arcadis
Chief of staff to former PM Theresa May was made life peer last autumn
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NewsTory MP to oversee set up of new homes ombudsman
Natalie Elphicke will chair interim board designed to deliver service by the beginning of 2021
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NewsRIBA calls for combustibles ban exemption for building structures
Architects’ body argues for lower height threshold for ban but change in scope which will allow CLT buildings
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NewsScottish housing sites to begin phased reopening next week
Full reopening construction sites will require government decision to move to “next phase”
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NewsHousing associations’ unsold stock soars by a fifth
Report by regulator finds associations are reducing development plans in light of covid crisis
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NewsLondon covid taskforce to call for funds to ‘flip’ unsold homes
Plan to convert unsold houses in to homes for affordable rent will need government cash, says deputy mayor
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NewsIlke delivered modular schemes during lockdown
Modular housebuilder says ’safe’ modular working practices helped it carry on through coronavirus crisis
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NewsQuestions over London affordable housing claim
London deputy mayor defends delivery after criticism over disparity between starts and completions