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...The housing department said: “Where developers and freeholders have profited from unsafe buildings, we will use powers in the landmark Building Safety Act to recover funds . . ....
...Levelling-up secretary Michael Gove has had to compromise with anti-development backbenchers by making local housing targets “advisory” for councils....
...The levelling up secretary on Tuesday said his department would consult on proposals aimed at making it easier to get permission to build on previously developed sites in England’s 20 largest cities if local...
...After the secretary of state for the environment weighed in, Wellesley-Colley won, and the yellow door remains — a prized part of the local history it was once said to be tainting....
...A spokesman for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: “Homes must be built in the right places and the greenbelt must be protected....
...More recently, housing secretary Michael Gove was forced to compromise with anti-development backbenchers....
...Glen Bramley, professor of urban studies at Heriot-Watt and the author of the 2018 NHF report, said that when housing is too expensive or scarce you find a “strange circular effect, with children moving...
...We also get data on the construction of new homes in January from the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development....
...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...
...“More people need good-quality housing so you can attract those relatively footloose, modern industries, but you can’t continue to have urban sprawl,” he says....
...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...
...But that is what the secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, one Gove, seemed to do last week in blocking a proposal from Marks and Spencer to redevelop its store near Marble Arch....
...When housing secretary Michael Gove set out plans to transform the university city of Cambridge last month, he asked his audience to dream big about “supercharging” the “science capital of Europe”....
...Stewart Baseley, executive chair of the Homebuilders Federation, said: “While prioritising UK buyers is key, some large-scale developments require upfront funding that (overseas) investor buyers can provide...
...He added that a towns strategy did not have to run counter to a cities one, noting that levelling up secretary Michael Gove has also talked about the need to increase the density of urban centres....
...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....
...In a statement, the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says “the reports of this investigation by the FT are deeply concerning....
...They added that in place of the zones, Gove was pushing plans for a series of “transformational” housing-led urban regeneration projects across the country....
...But after three different levelling up secretaries in just four months, two Whitehall officials said the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities was in “chaos”....
...Heseltine pushed through a flagship Thatcher programme of selling social housing to local authority tenants — creating a new wave of capitalist Tory voters — and later went on to do battle with the Campaign...
...Terry Smith, the former chief executive of Collins Stewart and current CEO of Fundsmith LLP, points the finger at misguided consultants and risk-averse funds....
...The past decade or so has seen dozens of council estates demolished, some replaced by garish luxury developments....
...But then you saw others like Suella Braverman, the home secretary, and Simon Clarke, the levelling up secretary, actually saying, you know what, it wasn’t the policy. It was the timing wrong....
...The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says it has supported “a number of high-profile cutting-edge projects in the North East”, including Britishvolt at Blyth and plans for a carbon capture...
...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
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