Downsizing crucial to tackling skewed housing market

3 June 2020
Downsizing crucial to tackling skewed housing market
The key to unlocking the housing crisis lies in tackling the under-occupation of family homes where there are more than 15 million ‘surplus’ bedrooms.

Greater detail needed on test and tracing

2 June 2020
Greater detail needed on test and tracing
Clive Betts has written to the Prime Minister requesting greater detail on the government’s approach to implementing contact test and tracing.

Housing company to build 500 affordable homes per year

2 June 2020
Housing company to build 500 affordable homes per year
Manchester City Council’s new authority-owned housing development company is seeking to build 500 affordable homes per year.
With the aim of increasing the number of multi-tenure, sustainable, high-quality homes for lower-income families, the company will adopt the council’s ambitious home building target that will see at least 32,000 homes built in the city between 2015 and 2025 - 6,400 of which (or 20 per cent) will be affordable to Manchester residents.

Too soon to ease lockdown in north-east England

2 June 2020
Too soon to ease lockdown in north-east England
Local government leaders in the north-east of England have urged residents to disregard the government’s ‘reckless’ relaxation of the lockdown.

Pressure to lower voting age increases

1 June 2020
Pressure to lower voting age increases
16- and 17-year-olds can now officially vote in Wales for Senedd elections, prompting renewed pressure for Westminster to follow suit.