The ultimate political problem is that people support housing in principle but not in practice. But these ‘fast tracks for beauty’ would create more homes and better places.
The Chancellor’s announcement about investment zones shows that, far from being dead, levelling up is alive and kicking in those places with the ambition to deliver.
Successive Conservative governments have delivered more powers and funding to raise up communities across the country. So too must the next.
The Secretary of State for Levelling Up reviews the Government’s plans for improving life chances and growth across the North.
Declining home ownership amongst the young is an existential threat to the Conservative Party. Yesterday’s announcements were not equal to the task.
It offers the opportunity to devolve powers directly to county and unitary authorities – rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all Metro Mayor model.
Just 7,500 new retirement housing units are delivered annually, versus Knight Frank’s estimate of a demand for 30,000.
Allegations against Gove highlight once again how hazy understandings of the term have become.
The Government should mirror Scotland and Wales in permanently liberalising rules around temporary camp sites
It contains ideas for the NHS which would genuinely help deprived communities. But the DLUHC should be wary of overstretching itself.
It’s the worst form of gesture politics in practice – that substitutes for the urgent need for more housing.
The man who confronted the education blob, and championed Brexit, has become officialdom’s poodle. A document of 332 pages has little to say.
Throwing taxpayers’ money around fails. What will restore pride to left-behind areas, and create new opportunities, is private initiative.
Today the Dormant Assets Bill will have its second reading in the House of Commons. It offers imaginative proposals for ministers.
Apprenticeships aren’t always reaching the 16 to 18 year-olds who need them most