Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The scrapped plans included a development of 145 homes with a community orchard and children’s play areas on farmland on the outskirts of the market town of Westbury; and 53 houses, including social housing...
...The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said hope value payments could often increase costs for councils....
...California, for example, has more than 50,000 active HOAs, according to the California Association of Community Managers....
...The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said it remained committed to strengthening protection for leaseholders and had consulted on a range of options to cap ground rents for existing leases...
...“The Prime Minister’s proposal to take £6.5 billion from Euston must not lead to the promises made to our community on affordable housing, jobs and investment locally being broken,” she said....
...Child-lens investing remains in its infancy but asset managers and impact investors are starting to explore or adopt the principle....
...And the FT’s deputy political editor, Jim Pickard. Hello, Jim. Jim PickardHi....
...Rayner also promised to give first-time buyers “first dibs” when buying new developments in their communities and vowed to implement “no-fault evictions” — a pledge made by the Tories in their 2019 manifesto...
...Michael Gove, levelling up, housing and communities secretary, is expected to replace the current system of developer contributions towards local amenities with a new levy designed to help councils boost...
...Further honourable mentions go to the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust’s Derwenthorpe development of family homes in North Yorkshire, and The Wintles, the rustic-inflected, low-carbon community adjacent to...
...At the same time Starmer made his deputy Angela Rayner shadow levelling-up secretary, a brief that also covers housing and communities....
...new development could put on local housing and infrastructure....
...However, prime minister Rishi Sunak and Gove are facing criticism from Labour and some Tory MPs for not doing more to address the chronic housing shortage and bowing to anti-development “Nimbys”....
...Once, while listening to a council worker talking to urban planners about a new housing development, Smithson grasped the local specificity of such negotiations....
...“When Mack left, it left a big hole,” said Gene Stephens, a spokesperson for the county’s economic development arm, which is preparing sites to secure Scout Motors suppliers and gearing up to build new housing...
...However, it found that “interventions to improve their quality of life ‘offer’” — from better schools, housing and transport links, as well as more cosmetic improvements — were key to fundamentally transforming...
...Mark Canning, senior partnerships and business development manager at Homes England, said this had instilled confidence among developers....
...The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said it “did not accept” the Home Builders Federation’s analysis, adding it was committed to delivering 300,000 new homes each year....
...He runs the state of Maryland’s Department of Housing and Community Development, and he says the crisis is not just in Baltimore....
...Developers have received contracts, drawn up by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, that will commit them to pay to repair unsafe buildings that are more than 11m high that they built...
...Water capacity constraints have led to NI Water opposing some housing and other developments. Larkin said the waste water system “has certainly reached a tipping point”....
...His message for local communities and the so-called “Nimbys” complaining about development in their areas is that Segro’s warehouses are “a force for good”....
...bike operators, new holiday housing estates and cheap souvenir shops....
...“The idea,” says Valentin, “is to create energy communities so that the solar benefits local people.”...
...with community landlords, for example, to manage housing as they would like....
International Edition