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New bill ‘to empower local leaders’

The Editorial Team

The Government has set out its plans to drive local growth and empower local leaders to regenerate their areas, in a Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.

Categories news Tags Levelling Up, planning
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Planning for the future

Councillor James Jamieson

The planning system has been a huge frustration for many councils over many years, and yet housing remains unaffordable in many parts of the country.

Categories lga chairman Tags planning

A trusted pillar of democracy

Councillor Marianne Overton MBE

We enter 2022 with everything to play for.

Categories group leaders Tags democracy, planning
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Planning for the future

Councillor David Renard

The LGA has responded to the Government’s proposed planning reforms.

Categories features Tags planning

‘Keep public participation at heart of planning’

The Editorial Team

The LGA has reiterated the need for new homes to be delivered through a planning system “with public participation at its heart”, after the Government announced proposals to reform the way the country builds.

Categories news Tags planning

Planning ‘does not prevent development’

Councillor Marianne Overton MBE

August was dominated by new government proposals on planning, scene setting for a White Paper on recovery and reorganisation, and the school exams fiasco.

Categories comment, group leaders Tags planning

‘Keep planning local’

The Editorial Team

As first was going to press, a policy paper was expected from the Government setting out its proposals to radically overhaul the planning system.

Categories news Tags planning

‘Reform RTB to get new homes built’

The Editorial Team

Desperately needed new social homes could go unbuilt unless the time that councils are given to spend money from Right to Buy sales is extended from three to five years, the LGA has warned.

Categories news Tags housing, planning
High rise office buildings in a city

Affordable homes lost to office conversions

The Editorial Team

New LGA analysis has found that more than 13,500 affordable homes could have been lost in the past four years because of rules allowing offices to be converted into housing without planning permission

Categories news Tags housing, planning
Ariel shot of Stoke on Trent

Local enterprise

Councillor Abi Brown

Combining a strategic location with public and private investment and the story of a real place has helped create jobs and bring derelict land back into use.

Categories features Tags commercialisation, planning
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