Posts Tagged ‘Affordable Homes’
2020 – A Year in Planning
2020 was quite a year to say the least. We take a look at how the planning world has responded to the pandemic and how it is looking to the future… Quarter One 2020 Take yourself back to almost a year ago. Back in February 2020, we were hearing tales of a terrible virus in…
Read MoreThe Budget and Planning Reforms
Planning, housing and developers got a double boost with the 2020 Budget, followed by the announcement of a long list of planning reforms… The spring 2020 Budget gave some good news to house builders (and goodness knows everyone needs some good news at the moment!). The Chancellor, in his debut Budget, promised that the government…
Read MoreDevelopment of Affordable Homes in London
Islington Borough Council has been buoyed by Government comments after it raised the issue of land prices for land where new homes are to be developed. The problem is that because of London’s spiralling land prices, developers claim that they cannot put the required amount of affordable homes into a development, because their initial costs…
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