All levelling up articles
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NewsGove to leave housing role after decision to step down as MP
Polarising housing secretary says a ‘new generation’ should now lead Conservative Party
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NewsSpending watchdog slams DLUHC’s failure to ‘get money out of the door’ for levelling up
Majority of supposedly ‘shovel-ready’ schemes forced to extend deadlines
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NewsSpeed of delivering levelling up projects has ‘not matched expectations’, admits top DLUHC official
First round of Levelling Up Fund spending has been extended to March 2025
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NewsDLUHC unveils £1.1bn funding for ‘left-behind’ towns
Rishi Sunak announces list of 55 towns that will each receive £20m over 10 years
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NewsMPs warn Gove’s planning reforms could make housebuilding targets ‘impossible’ to hit
A cross-party committee of MPs has been reviewing plans to make planning targets advisory not mandatory
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NewsLabour party to cut housebuilding cost by overhauling compulsory purchase orders
Proposals by shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy would go beyond the Conservatives’ amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
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NewsHomes England gives £43m to 2,000-home garden village scheme
The money for Burtree Garden Village will pay for infrastructure
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NewsCouncils to get new powers to block planning permission
Government amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to designed to stop housebuilders landbanking
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NewsGovernment proposes quality standard for all private rented sector homes
Decent Homes Standard could set basic legal minimums landlords will have to meet
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CommentIs levelling up about to level off?
Housing can help spark economic growth in deprived parts of the UK but levelling up needs resources and trust in equal measure, argues Ben Derbyshire
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NewsBurnham optimistic about ‘London-style’ housing funding powers for GM
Mayor says devolution over housing development grant funding is “coming through” its negotiations with Whitehall
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CommentWhy the levelling up bill may hold back housing delivery
Proposed changes to the primacy of the development plan and removal of the duty to co-operate are causes for concern to housing delivery, warns Jason Towell
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NewsHomes England loans Salford’s Middlewood Locks scheme £30m
Government money will help see 189 homes built
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NewsBurnham to call for greater housing powers in devolution talks with Gove
Greater Manchester mayor says housing will be ‘top of his list’ in forthcoming negotiation with government
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CommentUnlocking large sites with transport is key to boosting regeneration
Genuinely collaborative spatial planning is the key to delivering maximum value to communities, writes Fiona Fletcher-Smith
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NewsThird of homes in levelling up areas ‘can’t be retrofitted without public cash’
Building Back Britain Commission calls for £2.3bn a year investment to retrofit stock
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NewsL&G commits to £4bn investment in West Midlands
Deal, which follows similar with St Modwen and Lovell, likely to see delivery of ‘thousands’ of homes
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NewsGove ditches five-year land supply policy
Councils with up-to-date plans will not have to show a five-year supply of housing sites under new plans
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CommentThe Queen’s Speech shows the government in full retreat on planning reform
But the government could still include measures to help the system deliver more homes when the detail is brought forward, says Joey Gardiner
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CommentLessons on regeneration and levelling up from the Netherlands
Austen Reid and Ad Hereijgers from pan-European consultancy Ritterwald provide some tips on how levelling up can work effectively to create sustainable urban regeneration at scale