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Government Ministers Spend £130k in Six Months on Refurbishing Offices

Ministers have spent £130,000 on redecorating their offices since coming to power in July.

International Business Times UK

Homes ‘top priority’ as Government reforms to allow more building on green belt

A shake-up of planning rules means councils have been given mandatory targets to deliver a total of 370,000 homes a year in England.

Evening Standard

Labour pledges 370,00 new homes per year as housing target increases by over 20%

Labour housing minister Matthew Pennycook confirmed his party’s commitment to building more than 1.5m new homes in the UK over the next five years.

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Why have changes been made to planning policy and what are they?

The Government said it will intervene if councils do not co-operate fully in a push to deliver 1.7 million new homes.

The Independent UK

Housebuilding set to surge by 60% as Rayner faces backlash over plans to ‘bulldoze’ countryside

Prime minister Keir Starmer has insisted building more homes is more important than the environment, saying houses have to be ‘the top priority’

The Independent UK

Greenbelt should be in sights of councils that ‘max out’ brownfield land for housing, minister says

The Government is ‘absolutely willing’ to take a local plan away from councils that refuse to meet homebuilding targets, Matthew Pennycook warned

Evening Standard

Government willing to step in if authorities refuse to plan for housing targets

The Government is ‘absolutely willing’ to take over if local authorities refuse to put plans in place to meet housing targets.

Evening Standard

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National Trust attacks Labour’s green belt housing plan

The conservation charity says Angela Rayner’s push to speed up home building could taint urban ‘oases’ of greenery

The Independent UK

Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis, says Starmer

Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area

The Guardian - UK

Starmer vows to put ‘builders not blockers first’ with changes to planning rules

Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer have set out changes to councils’ housebuilding targets which could see green belt land developed.

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner forces councils to surrender green belt with immediate new housing targets

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has promised to build 1.5 million new homes over five years to fix the housing crisis

The Independent UK

More than 150 apartment block residents face eviction after no fault notices served weeks before Christmas

Exclusive: Residents at Vive Living Childers Street in Deptford have been served with a Section 21 eviction notice

The Independent UK

Moby-Dick reading marathon pioneers

Brief letters: Stars reading a whale of a tale | Horrible Histories progenitor | Farage fallouts | For efts’ sake

The Guardian - UK

Public Outcry as Angela Rayner Defends £68,000 Photographer: 'Good for Democracy' or Wasteful?

Deputy PM Angela Rayner defends hiring a £68,000 taxpayer-funded photographer, igniting controversy over government spending.

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Evening Standard

Downing Street: We must overhaul planning system in order to hit house targets

The Government has set out plans to build 1.5 million homes and make 150 planning decisions on major infrastructure projects.

The Guardian - UK

Shabana Mahmood suggests ministers will override objections to new prisons

Justice secretary says lack of cells ‘is of more concern’ than people’s worries about jails being built near their homes

Evening Standard

Plan for new Chinese 'super-embassy' opposite Tower of London rejected by council

The authority’s verdict is only advisory, as the final decision will lie with Deputy PM Angela Rayner in the new year

The Independent UK

Photographer ‘trying to strike balance’ of job, says Rayner

The Deputy Prime Minister was speaking about her experiences of the first few months in office.

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The Guardian - UK

Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy

People should have a say in their surroundings. But in its bid to build 1.5m homes, the government has left them powerless, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner denies her housebuilding plan will undermine local democracy: ‘I don’t like failure’

Angela Rayner warned ‘I don’t like failure’ as she plans to tear up the powers of councils to block developments and pushes for 1.5 million new homes to be built

Evening Standard

Rayner ‘knows people impatient for change’ amid fall in support for Labour

The Deputy Prime Minister pointed to ‘significant challenges’ faced by the Government since the election.

The Guardian - UK

Prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy, says Angela Rayner

Housing secretary says wildlife should be protected but not at the expense of building the homes the country needs

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer welcomes collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s ‘barbaric regime’

UK prime minister calls for civilians in Syria to be protected after rebel forces take control of Damascus

The Independent UK

‘I hate failure’: Angela Rayner remains defiant over Labour’s new homes target

Angela Rayner insisted “I hate failure” as she remained defiant over Labour’s new homes target.

Evening Standard

Rayner: Labour’s planning overhaul won’t see removal of local democratic power

The Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary wants to speed up planning applications, with some potentially avoiding scrutiny by local councillors.

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