Archive

Treasury: Limited scope to change pathfinder VAT

20 November 2007

There is only "limited room" for changing the tax policies charged with causing unnecessary home demolition, a Treasury official has admitted.

Quango set to receive wide-ranging regeneration powers

16 November 2007

The new housing and regeneration quango will be able to take on planning powers in agreed areas, if the new housing bill becomes law.

Cities pledge climate work

16 November 2007

Three city-wide climate change action plans are set to go ahead after the government pledged £250,000 for them last week.

Government orders review of city academies

16 November 2007

Ministers have ordered a review of the Government's controversial city academies programme.

Policy Exchange blasts failure of urban regeneration funding

16 November 2007

Towns and cities should be less restricted in regeneration spending while urban policies should boost growth, a think-tank has argued.

Turning Cheshire into two unitary authorities unwise says study

16 November 2007

Turning Cheshire into two unitary authorities could be unwise, research from think-tank the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures says. The study says using travel-to-work flows to make the case for carving up the council shows a "simplistic" understanding of economic relationships. The study is at www.regen.net/doc.

Firms must give more to society, says Tory chief

16 November 2007

Big business must donate more to support community groups and the voluntary sector, former Tory leader and the party's social justice tsar Iain Duncan Smith urged this week.

Broad brush

By Ben Walker

16 November 2007

A dismissal of regeneration misses important points.

Institute calls for clarification on East of England flood plans

16 November 2007

Clearer decisions must be made about what land to give up to the sea while improving coastal defences across the East of England, housing experts urged this week.

Leader urges home rethink

16 November 2007

Local authorities must engage with developers if the types of homes their cities need are going to be built, a conference heard last week.