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Yet another housing initiative is announced, but will it make up for the 260,000 planned homes that have been pulled by councils? Marrying local planning with the free market is a risk for the UK’s housing market.
Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles writes for Channel 4 News on the Localism Bill, saying “the time has come to restore town halls to their former glory”.
Gary Gibbon
Tonight Ed Miliband will make a speech arguing that the Blairite push for competition, the big market approach continued by the coalition, has reached the end of its productive life.
It was quite some shock to hear a political leader announce a “freeze” in energy prices. But is it really a return to old-school socialism?
Up to 4,000 pubs are set to close their doors in the next year – but they are “stuck in the 1980s” anyway, says the Good Pub Guide 2014. Channel 4 News looks at what makes a good pub.
Many onshore wind farms may become uneconomic warn the renewables industry after the government announces new planning rules giving communities more power to object to new schemes.
Victoria Macdonald
There is a good case for some A&E units closing, but people love their local hospitals. To win them over, those running the NHS need to use less jargon and be less patronising.
Today was the deadline for local councils to get their house in order before the government’s new planning rules come into force. It’s a key milestone in the battle between ministers and developers who want to increase the housing supply, and pressure groups who are worried that rural England is about to disappear beneath a…
Chris Grayling has announced plans to close six public jails in the biggest prison closure programme in decades. So where does that leave overcrowding? We answer a few key questions.
Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, today renew their vows in a new show of unity, two and a half years after the rose garden press conference.
Does the demise of one of America’s favourite junk food brands mark a turning point in the nation’s eating habits, asks Felicity Spector?
Britain’s eight biggest cities outside London are to be given devolved powers over planning, education and transport, in return for pledges to improve local economies and infrastructure.
Coalition plans for the economy are criticised by a senior Conservative backbencher on the eve of the party’s conference in Manchester.
Amid fears that planning changes could end up “concreting the countryside”, the planning minister tells Channel 4 News he will work with countryside campaigners, but says there will be no U-turn.
Thousands of charities and voluntary groups across England are facing cuts worth more than £100m, according to new figures, casting doubt on David Cameron’s vision for a Big Society.