Communities and Local Government News

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today told councils that local communities who go for growth now and in the future will receive direct and substantial extra funding to spend as they wish. (continues...)

The new Government is taking swift action to shorten and simplify environmental regulations so it is easier for developers to green-proof their building projects, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said today. (continues...)

Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has today scrapped the Place Survey, one of the largest surveys in Europe that was due to be conducted by local authorities this autumn. (continues...)

Plans to increase town hall transparency and stop the practice of local authorities hiring lobbyists to press-gang Government into pet funding projects or new regulations have been proposed by Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles. (continues...)

A landmark agreement that gives councils and public bodies free access to government mapping data will unleash a wave of fresh thinking and innovation in public services, Local Government Minister Grant Shapps said today. (continues...)

New figures have today laid bare concerns over the dramatic increase in the number of ´gardens grabbed´ for development in the last 12 years. (continues...)

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today put the eight million tenants in social housing in England firmly in control of where they live and their life opportunities, with a new ´freedom pass´ to move home for work or to be closer to family. (continues...)

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles pledges to end a culture of paper chasing today as the Department for Communities and Local Government publishes latest performance and spending data for 2009-10. (continues...)

Communities and Local Government, along with all Whitehall departments, have published their response to comments made by the public on the Coalition´s ´Programme for Government´. (continues...)