Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The relocation to east London would leave just one major City regulator in the heart of the UK’s historic financial district: the Prudential Regulation Authority in the Bank of England....
...The issue of housing and planning is set to be a point of contention in this year’s general election, with the Centre for Cities think-tank estimating that the UK has a historical backlog of 4mn unbuilt...
...The number of visitors to the district has grown, and the estate now includes thousands of units of housing....
...Authorities could only meet real need by substantial building or acquisition of housing. Martin Johnson London SE1, UK...
...“The City is both applicant and the local planning authority and as such this complex and contested scheme must be subject to the highest levels of scrutiny,” the group said....
...Breach at Centre for Cities said: “The planning system, by disconnecting local supply from local demand, has resulted in housing being more unaffordable over time.”...
...A housing shortage has worsened and rental prices pushed up for full-time residents, he argued, and the city has not been able to move ahead with planned quotas because of court cases....
...authorities are falling short on housing delivery....
...New York, San Francisco and London are led by progressives who wring their hands publicly over their acute and long-running housing crises....
...Gove’s policy changes will push councils to come up with local plans for development, but also give them more discretion to say “no” to taking overflow housing needs from nearby cities....
...This is where city authorities can play a facilitating role....
...Tensions between the central government and municipal authorities have snarled progress, according to officials....
...The district has lost some key tenants, including HSBC, which has said it will move to the City. Other financial groups, like Barclays, have decided to stay. Canary Wharf Group declined to comment....
..., housing, planning, employment support and energy....
...The largest local authority in Europe had in effect gone bust while the city around it was booming....
...Foster’s City Hall on the south bank of the Thames has been abandoned by the mayor and Greater London Authority....
...A string of other towns and cities face parallel pressures amid a broader national squeeze on local government finances....
...Given Britain’s chronic housing shortage, holiday lets are an obvious target even if they are not the sole cause. Other countries and cities have already taken action....
...Meanwhile, new housing is still being built on flood plains without adequate protection....
...“We cannot expand our city centres if they’re not within commutable reach of workers, but we also have to address the housing issue, where the UK, particularly on social housing, is far behind its peers,...
...’s at-risk housing stock....
...The experience of the city state shows that higher debt issuance is a poor measure of fiscal space. Concerns that markets may revolt if tapped for investment capital have not been borne out....
...“This is a very big authority....
...Unable to meaningfully increase the supply of greenfield sites, politicians eventually resorted to demand subsidies such as tax relief on mortgage interest or increasing housing density in cities....
...But in recent weeks, Israel has expanded its targets, striking the Lebanese town of Ghaziyeh, about 5km south of the coastal city of Sidon, as well as Jadra, a city just 30km south of the capital Beirut,...
International Edition