Nick Johnstone
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Blackpool given £39m to buy two landmarks
Blackpool Council is to buy Blackpool Tower and the Winter Gardens complex following the awarding of a £39m government grant.
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Blackpool pays £1.4m for ex-department store
Blackpool Council has bought a former Harveys department store in the town centre for £1.4m.
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Treasury Committee slates Crown Estate
MPs have slammed the Crown Estate for lacking in transparency and managing its urban and marine estates too commercially.
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Watchdog MP slams Labour’s regeneration “daydreams”
The government’s regeneration projects are over-ambitious and poorly thought out, according to the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
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Scotland leads way in tax-increment finance
Edinburgh will create the UK’s first tax-increment finance scheme
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Budget 2010: £35bn public property sell-off
UK councils and other public agencies will look to dispose of property worth £35bn in the next decade, a government report says today.
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Budget 2010: Government to launch TIF pilots
The government is to set up Accelerated Development Zone pilot schemes, allowing it to test the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) mechanism for development funding in England and Wales.
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Budget 2010: Report to help create “Whitehall of North”
Plans to create a Manchester campus of civil servants comparable to Whitehall gained support from an independent review today.
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Budget 2010: REITs win dividends victory
Real estate investment trusts (Reits) will be allowed to count stock dividends towards their 90 per cent income distribution requirements, in a victory for the British Property Federation.
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Budget 2010: 15,000 more Whitehall jobs to move
The government should relocate 15,000 jobs out of London in the next five years, Ian Smith has recommended in his report on government relocation today.
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Budget 2010: Darling to cut business rates
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that he wants to cut business rates for one year from October.
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Budget 2010: Infrastructure bank to be created
Chancellor Alistair Darling has said that he will create an investment bank for infrastructure as part of this year's Budget.
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Budget 2010: "Asset sales on track," says Darling
Chancellor Alistair Darling has said that the sales of the Tote betting chain and the Dartford Crossing are on track.
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Budget 2010: 1,000 Ministry of Justice posts to be relocated
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that 1,000 Ministry of Justice jobs are to be relocated outside London and the South East, saving £41m.
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Budget 2010: Public deficit forecast to hit £167bn this year
Chancellor Alistair Darling has said that the net borrowing would be £11bn less than the £178bn predicted in December's Pre-Budget Report.
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Budget 2010: £2.5bn growth package for businesses and infrastructure
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced a one-off £2.5bn growth package to help fund small businesses and infrastructure.
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Budget 2010: Stamp Duty relief for first-time buyers up to £250k
Chancellor Alistair Darling will scrap stamp duty for first-time home buyers on purchases up to £250,000, and wants to increase stamp duty to 5% for residential properties over £1m.
OnlinePWTV: Cuts are not the way forward, says Cable
The government should resist making big spending cuts straight after the general election if it wants to help the UK tackle its public sector deficit, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats told Property Week.
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Select Committee criticises Decent Homes progress
The government's £40bn Decent Homes programme should target private as well as social housing in future, a Select Committee report has warned.
