MHCLG has announced £16bn of “new” public investment within a National Housing Bank pledged to offer support for construction of more than 500,000 new homes and £53bn of private investment. The Bank is a new subsidiary of Homes England, set [...]

The Government has confirmed that the final Future Homes Standard will be published "this autumn," and that the Option 1 in the industry consultation, namely including mandatory solar PV, would be the preferred option taken forward. Ministers “confirmed that solar [...]

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has defended her Department's approach to 'unblocking' sites in the south east on the BBC, following approving a development of 165 homes in Cranbrook, Kent, on a former Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. She told the [...]

The Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government has launched a joint industry consultation with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to “reform” the EPC Framework to provide a “robust, well-rounded perspective on building performance.” The consultation outlines [...]

The BBC has obtained information from the industry consultation underway on the new mandatory private housing targets for local authorities, which include responses to the Government saying that achieving its 1.5 million homes target is "unrealistic" and "impossible." Sir Keir [...]