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MPs warn of levelling-up failure in call for long-term funding

A cross-party committee has identified significant flaws in the Government’s approach to addressing regional inequalities.

The Independent UK

Liverpool Council missed deadline for crucial £2m funding

City council had to take urgent decision to accept government cash after initial date was missed

Liverpool Echo

Flats bought for £900,000 now worth NOTHING as distraught owners face 'losing everything'

Residents of the new build block in Camden, north London, fear they may be trapped in properties valued at £0 and deemed 'unmortgageable' due to the amount of defects

Daily Mirror

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Planning work for Grenfell memorial gets under way six years after deadly blaze

A memorial will be developed on the Grenfell Tower site in west London

Evening Standard

Back-to-work schemes in England previously funded by EU forced to close

Government’s post-Brexit funding U-turn comes too late for councils to allocate money to keep them running

The Guardian - UK

Failed Levelling Up bids have suddenly been reversed - where was the money hiding?

Local MPs admit they are delighted but bewildered by the Budget announcement that areas with previously failed bids will now been handed millions.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: £211m down the back of the sofa

Why have area responsible for previously failed Levelling Up bids suddenly been handed millions? PLUS What’s the mayor doing in the US?

Manchester Evening News

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Northern housebuilders Bellway and Persimmon sign up to post-Grenfell safety scheme

The companies have committed to the Self-Remediation Terms that will cost them hundreds of millions of pounds

Birmingham Post

WECA placed on government 'watchlist' after council leaders' rows

Prospect raised that the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities could send in government inspectors

Bristol Post

'Your support stopped us feeling alone': Awaab Ishak's dad speaks out after massive breakthrough

'We are finally starting to feel like we are being treated fairly'

Manchester Evening News

Awaab's Law: Campaign for change in tragic toddler's memory takes huge step forward as Bill amendment set to be tabled

The two-year-old died following prolonged exposure to damp and mould at his home on the Freehold estate in Rochdale

Manchester Evening News

Plans for regional levelling up directors may be dropped, MPs told

Levelling Up minister Dehenna Davison said recruitment process is under review as officials admit no appointments may be made.

The Independent UK

'Beyond disappointing': Bolton gets second crushing blow in just 24 hours after £40m bids end in failure

Two bids for levelling up cash to boost Bolton, together worth £40M have been thrown out by the government

Manchester Evening News

New £5.4m Nottinghamshire training centre to boost green skills and create thousands of jobs

It is anticipated to support almost 100 businesses and create 3,200 jobs at qualification levels 2 and 3 over the next decade, including five jobs at the centre itself

Nottingham Post

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New voter ID advice for North Tyneside residents could cost council £58k

As controversial voter ID reforms loom closer, North Tyneside Council is left estimating the costs

The Independent UK

Homes for Ukraine ‘thank you’ payments to be raised after one year of hosting

Councils will also receive money to help prevent homelessness among arrivals and to acquire more homes for people fleeing conflicts.

The Independent UK

Government survey of social housing residents reveals damp and mould concerns

More than half of tenants with maintenance and safety concerns said this was down to damp, mould and condensation, the survey found.

Evening Standard

‘We still feel stranded’: despite Help to Buy extension many buyers will lose money and miss out on homes

After Homes & Property revealed hundred of Londoners would miss the Help to Buy deadline due to buliding delays, the government announced an extension. But many buyers still stand to miss out

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The Independent UK

Government to miss affordable homes building targets by 32,000

Not enough socially-rented homes are being built to ease the national housing crisis, the Public Accounts Committee has said.

The Independent UK

Government to miss affordable homes building targets by 32,000, MPs say

Not enough socially-rented homes are being built to ease the national housing crisis, the Public Accounts Committee has said.

The Independent UK

Government kick-starts local development funding to replace EU investment

It has approved councils’ plans to invest a £2.6 billion pot that succeeds the European Structural and Investment Fund.

The Guardian - UK

Forty councils in England built no social housing for five years due to cuts

Government focus on homes at higher ‘affordable’ rent helps fuel drastic shortage with demand poised to surge

The Independent UK

Councils handed further £13.5m to clamp down on rogue supported living providers

The funding will help councils step up inspections and carry out better scrutiny of housing benefit claims to ensure they are reasonable.

The Guardian - UK

Tories’ levelling up ad campaign broke the rules, finds watchdog

Advertising promoting government policies in run-up to local elections in May described as party propaganda by Labour

The Independent UK

‘No decision made’ on scrapping plans to ban no-fault evictions – Government

The Conservative party first pledged to scrap no-fault evictions in 2019 in its election manifesto.

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