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Response to the Financial Times on council finances

On 26 August the Financial Times reported that Croydon Council has approached the department for additional financial support and that other councils could follow. The Ministry is clear that councils –...

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Response to Wildlife Trusts

There has been media coverage today of a call by the Wildlife Trusts for a new ‘wildbelt’ planning designation and their claims that our proposed planning reforms will damage nature. We disagree...

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Response to the Mayor of London's call to protect rough sleepers this...

The Mayor of London’s comments are misleading and alarmist. We took decisive action at the height of the pandemic to protect hundreds of lives by bringing nearly 15,000 of the most vulnerable into safe...

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LGA analysis of affordable housing

The Local Government Association (LGA) has made a statement today suggesting that government proposals to exempt small building sites from paying ‘section 106’ contributions would have cost 30,000...

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Local housing need

Recent media coverage has sought to speculate on how many homes  could be created following the government’s proposals to update the formula on local numbers of new houses. Some of these stories also...

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Response to a statement by Crisis about winter accommodation for rough sleepers

A statement put out by Crisis today misrepresents the support we’re giving to local areas so they can protect vulnerable rough sleepers from life-threatening cold weather and the risks posed by...

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Planning for the Future

In August, the government published Planning for the Future:  a consultation which proposed an overhaul of our country’s outdated planning system to deliver the high-quality, sustainable homes...

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Response to The Guardian’s article on funding for homeless charities

The Guardian article about funding for homeless charities is both inaccurate and misleading. Since the start of the pandemic we have taken decisive action to protect rough sleepers, and the government...

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Promotion of the My Town campaign

Recent coverage has contained a number of misleading claims about last year’s My Town campaign. The campaign was designed to bring forward ideas from local people on how the Towns Fund could be...

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Response to The Times Red Box column on PDR change and planning reform

In response to incorrect reporting on a new permitted development right (PDR) and the wider impact of the government’s recent planning reform white paper in the piece by Mike Amesbury MP in the Times...

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Response to the Times front page on housing building target analysis by the...

The Times today (Tuesday 25 May) reported on inaccurate analysis by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), stating that rural areas will have a legal requirement to meet the new house building...

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Response to The Sunday Times article on the cost of cladding remediation

The Sunday Times has today published an article titled “‘Footing the bill for the cladding crisis will cost more than my flat’”. The article uses figures on the cost of remediation from Association of...

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Response to claims about the Everyone In scheme

Some media outlets are reporting claims that we have told councils that the Everyone In scheme is ending. The work of Everyone In is ongoing. We’ve made huge progress to bring rough sleepers off the...

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