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...Labour has pledged to boost housebuilding through measures including a “blitz of planning reform”, fast-tracking housing on previously-developed urban brownfield sites and working to build a number of “new...
...The sum extended to the UK’s biggest brownfield site includes a sharp rise in local taxpayer liabilities in the past three years and prospective national tax breaks....
...(House & Home, FT Weekend, January 27) how developers prefer greenfield over brownfield sites. It’s cheaper for developers to build on greenfield and therefore increases their profits....
...The proposals announced on Tuesday would mean planning authorities in the 20 largest English cities “will be made to follow a ‘brownfield presumption’, if housebuilding drops below expected levels”, the...
...These are affordable to either rent or to part buy and importantly also affordable to run, by being built to a high standard, well above building regulations....
...The accounts were audited by Chipchase Manners, a Middlesbrough-based firm with three audit partners, according to the register of statutory auditors, rather than a major audit firm....
...And a 2022 study by Lichfields consultants — which also found potential for 1.4mn homes on brownfield sites (whether in or outside the greenbelt) — said that number of homes “equates to just under a third...
...The port operator had sought to claim 15 categories of access rights to the Teesworks regeneration site, the UK’s largest brownfield site, earlier in the case, but dropped most of them....
...Housing developers would be awarded “planning passports” that would make it easier for them to build on brownfield sites....
...The STDC was set up in 2017 to transform the vast former steelworks in Redcar, Britain’s largest brownfield project....
...More recently, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has declared his planning policy to be “brownfield, brownfield, brownfield”, vowing to protect “precious” greenbelt land....
...generation of Labour new towns”, in an echo of the party’s renewal project in the period after the second world war.Labour leader Sir Keir said there would be “no more land bankers sitting comfortably on brownfield...
...We have built social housing in each of the last five years, delivering high-quality homes on brownfield sites for families on our waiting lists. But our range of options are now exhausted....
...Think of the language of planning, which inscribes these prejudices: building control, the greenbelt, brownfield sites, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty....
...The funds will go partly to fund the construction of natural gas terminals at two brownfield sites and smaller investments in a container port and new dredging equipment....
...The measures included making it easier to convert shops, takeaways, barns and empty warehouses into housing, moves to bolster the regeneration of disused brownfield sites, and new freedoms to build extensions...
...While larger peers chase higher margins by purchasing prime land in wealthier locations and developing expensive homes, MJ Gleeson buys brownfield or reclaimed land at a discount in places the major housebuilders...
...Ever since two local developers were handed control of the UK’s biggest brownfield project, Teesworks, questions have swirled about the value and wisdom of the deal, the secrecy that has shrouded it and...
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...Starmer’s housebuilding proposals include planning reforms, a generation of “new towns”, the creation of a “planning passport” to fast-track brownfield schemes and a policy of allowing first-time buyers...
...Labour for its part has promised a “blitz of planning reform” should it win the election, fast-tracking brownfield sites, building new towns and improving the supply of affordable housing....
...Houchen has long had plans to regenerate Redcar’s large former steelworks at Teesworks, Europe’s biggest brownfield site, as part of a programme to boost the area’s local economy....
...Wood said on Tuesday it had scored a $250mn contract extension in south-east Asia in the first half of the year to deliver brownfield engineering services....
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...These projects would harness local leadership, including through the national housing body Homes England, join up the investment of different government departments, and fund the restoration of brownfield...
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