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20 Nov Health

Care leavers could get free prescriptions and bus fares as part of plans to boost government support for vulnerable young people, PoliticsHome understands.

17 Nov Communities

Labour MP Says Men Should Remember How To Be "Gentlemen"

13 Nov Education

Criminal Exploitation Of Children Rises By 55 Per Cent In Two Years, Data Suggests

13 Nov Communities

Labour MP Calls For Nationalisation Of Housing Association Properties

12 Nov Education

Labour MP Warns Homeless Families Are Using Schools As "Support Hubs"

03 Nov Communities

Labour MP Says "Unneighbourly" Use Of Fireworks Is "Hugely Detrimental" To Vulnerable People And Pets

27 Oct Communities

West Midlands Mayor Accuses Whitehall Of Being "Resistant" To Greater Devolution

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13 Nov Communities

Tory support among Chinese and Hindu voters presents opportunity and risk for Kemi Badenoch

13 Nov Communities

New Labour MP Peter Lamb: 'I’m too fat to have sharp elbows'

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11 Nov Education

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22 Nov Political parties

Defence Secretary Says British Military Capabilities Are "Just Not Good Enough"

21 Nov Defence

Kim Leadbeater On Assisted Dying: "I Came Into Politics To Make A Difference"

23 Nov Health

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13 Nov Communities

New Labour MP Peter Lamb: 'I’m too fat to have sharp elbows'

New Labour MP Peter Lamb talks to Sienna Rodgers about his fears over the Chagos deal, siding with the left on Gaza, and why all housing association properties should be nationalised

01 Nov Communities

New Labour MP vs MMA fighter: Grappling with ego

A new Labour MP is set to go up against a professional MMA fighter, all in the name of charity. Will Stone tells Tali Fraser about the battle ahead, and why he has a 20 per cent chance of coming out on top

28 Oct Communities

Peter Kyle: 'I don’t wake up thinking, "Today is the day I’m going to speak to Elon Musk"'

Ministers are banking on the AI revolution to drive everything from NHS reform to economic growth. Peter Kyle tells Tali Fraser about his efforts to keep the ‘Ferrari’ on the road. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer

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24 Feb 2016 Communities

Housing legislation 'turns landlords & estate agents into immigration officers'

Baroness Hamwee writes ahead of an attempt to halt the Government's ‘right to rent’ legislation today in the Lords. She calls on Labour peers to support it and not to 'sit on their hands'.

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23 Feb 2016 Communities

CPRE supports launch of new planning resource

HRH The Prince of Wales was among those celebrating the launch of the Princes Foundation for Building Communitys new Beauty In My Back Yard (BIMBY) housing toolkit yesterday.

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19 Feb 2016 Communities

It’s time for decision-makers to appreciate the value of SME house builders

The House of Lords committee on national policy for the built environment published an official report stating that building 240,000 new homes a year is impossible unless the public sector plays a bigger role.

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19 Feb 2016 Environment

Lords committee calls for Government to change course on housing

CPRE today welcomes the first report from a new cross-party House of Lords select committee on the built environment.

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19 Feb 2016 Communities

CIOB Respond to Lords report on Built Environment

In response to the publication of the House of Lords Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment report, Building better places, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) agrees on the need to focus on smart regulation to meet the quantity and quality of homes we need.

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19 Feb 2016 Communities

Local house builders can deliver quality and quantity, says FMB

Small local house builders are best placed to ensure that increasing the quantity of homes does not reduce the quality of homes, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has stated, in light of a new House of Lords Committee report on the built environment.

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18 Feb 2016 Communities

Can you fast track your way out of the housing crisis?

The House Builders Association responds to the recent DCLGproposal to fast track planning applications.

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18 Feb 2016 Communities

Another top-down scheme is not the solution to home affordability problems, says HBA

The House Builders Association (HBA) has expressed its concern with the Starter Homes policy in the Housing and Planning Bill which is not affordable to most people and could give local decision-making powers to the secretary of state.

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17 Feb 2016 Communities

Fast track planning urgently needed, says FMB

Government proposals to offer a fast track planning process for house building are needed urgently, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

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17 Feb 2016 Communities

Starter Homes Scheme: length of discount period raises concerns

With the Government changing the definition of affordable housing in the National Planning Policy to accommodate Starter Homes, its vital that the scheme delivers homes that are genuinely affordable, says the Building Societies Association.

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16 Feb 2016 Communities

Assessing the impact of the proposed LHA cap

Housing association Moat calls for the debate on the proposed LHA cap to be grounded in fact andevidence.

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15 Feb 2016 Communities

BMAPA recognises excellence in archaeological reporting

Three winners of the British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) annual Archaeology Awards have recently been announced.

09 Feb 2016 Communities

The most vulnerable people in our society let down by housing crisis

Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron writes ahead of his party's Opposition Day Debate on the Long-term plan for housing in the UK; how to eradicate the 100,000 homeless children & 1.6 million households stuck on housing waiting lists.

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02 Feb 2016 Communities

Concerns raised over Gov't changes to fire prevention

In light of the recent decision to move responsibilityfor fire preventionto the Home Office, the Glass and Glazing Federation raisesconcerns that there will be compromises made between Government departments with relation to fire safety in buildings.

75% more homes built in 2015 than during downturn, new data reveals

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28 Jan 2016 Communities

75% more homes built in 2015 than during downturn, new data reveals

Lewis Sidnick, Director of Corporate Affairs at NHBC welcomes new figures showing that there were 75% more new homes registered to be built in 2015 than during the housing market crash in 2009.

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28 Jan 2016 Communities

NHBC reports continued house-building growth in 2015

- 7% year-on-year increase in NHBC new home registrations - 156,140 new homes registered - representing 8 year high - 75% more new homes registered in 2015 than in 2009

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22 Jan 2016 Communities

CIEH responds to £5m funds to tackle rogue landlords

Following the Housing Ministers announcement of 5m worth of funding for councils to tackle rogue landlords, Bob Mayho, Principal Policy Officer for the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), said:

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13 Jan 2016 Communities

Migrant values adapt over just one generation

Migrants thinking styles and social values rapidly shift over a single generation to become more similar to those of the wider society they have moved into, new research has indicated.

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12 Jan 2016 Environment

Flooding in Northern England

Through the month of December 2015 Northern England faced terrible flooding. Communities in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester were faced with the devastating consequences of unprecedented rainfall and inadequate flood defences.

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12 Jan 2016 Communities

Regeneration without gentrification - dilapidated housing in the UK

The Government will allocate 140 million to regenerating dilapidated housing estates across the country.

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11 Jan 2016 Communities

Will regeneration price existing tenants out of their own homes?

The House Builders Association (HBA) welcomes the governments action to regenerate run-down estates.

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06 Jan 2016 Communities

‘Strength from the Depths’ – Ninth Annual Sustainable Development Report for the British Marine Aggregate Industry Published

The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) has published its ninth annual Sustainable Development (SD) report covering the year 2014.

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04 Jan 2016 Communities

Help for SME house builders welcomed by HBA

The Government has announced that it will be commissioning house building. While this will help build 13,000 homes, 40% of which will be starter homes, this initiative recognises the contribution that SME house builders can make to helping solve the housing crisis by making the scheme more accessible to smaller house builders.

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04 Jan 2016 Communities

Small land parcels are key to delivering Government’s new homes, says FMB

The Governments plans for directly commissioned house building could help tackle the housing crisis but land must be broken down into small and micro parcels wherever possible, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

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