All levelling up articles
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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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Burnham 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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Unlocking 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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Third 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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L&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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Gove 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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The 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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Lessons 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
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What Gove’s levelling up plan needs to do to improve lives and not just ‘tart up’ town centres
Levelling up success should be measured in places like Blackpool and Jaywick, argues Chris Brown
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Stoke-on-Trent resi regeneration scheme approved
Capital&Centric’s 174-home Goods Yard project is backed by government ‘levelling up’ cash
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Johnson vows to stop ‘overdevelopment’ in some parts of the country
Prime Minister repeats pledge which has prompted some councils in the home counties to halt their local plans
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On levelling up, ministers must not ignore London or the need for investment
The ‘postcode lottery’ language of the levelling up white paper is divisive, writes former head of the civil service Lord Bob Kerslake
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Why the levelling up paper might turn out to be significant, despite lack of detail
Former senior civil servant and housing boss Matthew Bailes finds echoes of the past in Michael Gove’s levelling up vision
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Infrastructure loan fund will have £624m to spend
The new ‘Home Building Fund’ was announced as part of this week’s levelling up white paper
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Gove has delivered a levelling up policy lacking real detail or serious money
Michael Gove’s seemingly ambitious vision falls a bit flat and ‘left behind’ towns deserve better, argues Carl Brown
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Gove’s levelling up plan sounds good – but the jury is out
There is no sign of the funding that will be needed for yesterday’s proposals to deliver on their bold ambition
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Homes England details new ‘levelling up’ housing funds
Agency sets out funding criteria for new development finance and infrastructure pots as it is given new regen role
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Industry underwhelmed by Gove’s levelling up vision
Housing and construction bodies criticise lack of detail in long-awaited white paper
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Housing funding rules set for overhaul to support ‘levelling up’
‘80/20 rule’ axed to channel more Homes England money into the north and midlands
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Regen funding of £1.5bn to ‘level up’ 20 places
DLUHC confirms Wolverhampton and Sheffield among those to benefit and says white paper due shortly
