Residential planning & policy

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  PDR extension comes under fire from property experts

  2020-07-30T00:00:00+01:00By Sebastian McCarthy

  Industry raises concerns over effectiveness and quality of government’s controversial extension to PDR.

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  Help to Buy alone is not enough

  2020-07-30T00:00:00+01:00By Dean Clifford

  Green shoots have started to show in the housing market, from an uptick in mortgage enquiries, renewed interest in certain properties such as houses with gardens, and big statements of confidence from major housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey.

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  £6m Hyndburn social housing development gets green light

  2020-07-27T16:29:00+01:00By Mitchell Labiak

  Social housing provider Onward Homes has been given the green light on 40 new homes in Great Harwood, Hyndburn.

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  Stamp duty holiday boost won’t support housing market long-term

  2020-07-23T16:01:00+01:00By Emma Shone

  The stamp duty holiday will not benefit the housing market in the long-term, according to more than 50% of Property Week readers.

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  Welsh urban village wins planning approval

  2020-07-23T14:04:00+01:00By Sebastian McCarthy

  Plans for an urban village in south east Wales have been given the go-ahead by Torfaen County Borough Council, paving the way for 900 new homes.

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  Why the stamp duty move is still not enough

  2020-07-23T00:00:00+01:00By John Mulryan

  Looking back in history, whenever the UK economy has faced a recession, the government has always looked to the housing market to stimulate activity – Help to Buy being the effort that followed the 2008 financial crisis.

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  Some home truths about ESG

  2020-07-23T00:00:00+01:00By Hugo Llewelyn

  One positive thing to emerge from the first stage of this coronavirus rewiring is that institutional investors and forward-thinking fund managers have not forgotten previous commitments to environmental, social and corporate governance.

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  UK estate agents played role in ‘extension of Russian influence’

  2020-07-22T14:29:00+01:00By Mitchell Labiak

  Estate agents in the UK played a role in the “extension of Russian influence” linked to “nefarious interests of the Russian state”, according to revelations in the intelligence and security committee’s long-awaited report on Russia.

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  Berkeley’s 527-home scheme at White City greenlit

  2020-07-13T12:09:00+01:00By Mitchell Labiak

  Berkeley Group developer St James has received planning permission to redevelop Centre House in London’s White City into a 527-home scheme.

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