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Press release

Launch of Planning for the future consultation to reform the planning system

Planning for the future: landmark reforms to speed up and modernise the planning system and get the country building.

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Press release

£1.3 billion investment to deliver homes, infrastructure and jobs

Funds to deliver up to 45,000 homes, create up to 85,000 jobs and upgrade skills and infrastructure to help fuel a green economic recovery announced.

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Press release

Help to Buy scheme extended

Thousands of families can still benefit from the current Help to Buy scheme despite delays in building their new homes due to coronavirus.

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Press release

£20 million in new grants to boost recovery of small businesses

£20 million new funding to help smaller businesses recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Detailed guide

Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for local government

Guidance for local councils during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

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Guidance

Closing certain businesses and venues in England

Guidance on the closure of certain businesses and venues as part of further social distancing measures, and on the further easing of coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions in July and August 2020.

Latest from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

  1. European Structural and Investment Funds: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response
    • Guidance
  2. Application of building regulations where additional storeys are provided to existing buildings: circular 03/2020
    • Correspondence
  3. European Regional Development Fund: outputs and results
    • Guidance

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What the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government does

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (formerly the Department for Communities and Local Government) job is to create great places to live and work, and to give more power to local people to shape what happens in their area.

MHCLG is a ministerial department, supported by 12 agencies and public bodies.

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Services

  1. Check your Council Tax band
  2. Apply for or renew a Blue Badge
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Guidance and regulation

  1. COVID-19: guidance for the safe use of places of worship and special religious services and gatherings during the pandemic
    • Guidance
  2. Government advice on home moving during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
    • Detailed guide
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News and communications

  1. Application of building regulations where additional storeys are provided to existing buildings: circular 03/2020
    • Correspondence
  2. Funding boost to help communities plan their neighbourhoods
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. COVID-19: business rates reliefs by parliamentary constituency
    • Research
  2. Section 106 planning obligations and the Community Infrastructure Levy in England, 2018 to 2019: report of study
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Planning for the future
    • Open consultation
  2. First Homes
    • Consultation outcome
See all policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Coronavirus business grant funding by parliamentary constituency and local authority
    • Transparency
  2. MHCLG: special advisers’ gifts, hospitality and meetings, January to March 2020
    • Transparency
See all transparency and freedom of information releases

Our ministers

The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
Simon Clarke MP
Simon Clarke MP
The Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP
The Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP
Luke Hall MP
Luke Hall MP
Stephen Greenhalgh

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Our management

Jeremy Pocklington
Jeremy Pocklington
Permanent Secretary
Catherine Frances
Director General, Local Government and Public Services
Emran Mian
Director General, Decentralisation and Growth
Andy Hobart
Interim Director General, Chief Financial Officer
Professor Alan Penn
Lise-Anne Boissiere
Director, Strategy, Communications and Private Office
Ruth Bailey
Director, People, Capability and Change
Michael Jary
Lead Non-Executive Director
Dame Mary Ney DBE
Non-Executive Director
Pam Chesters CBE
Non-Executive Director
Chris Townsend
Chief Executive Officer of the Shielding Programme

Special representatives

The Rt Hon Lord Pickles
The Rt Hon Lord Pickles
United Kingdom Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues

Contact MHCLG

Office address and general enquiries

2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
United Kingdom

Contact Form: Office address and general enquiries

General enquiries: please use this number if you are a member of the public

030 3444 0000

If your enquiry is related to COVID-19 please check our guidance page first before you contact us - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-local-government.

If you still need to contact us please use the contact form above to get in touch, because of coronavirus (COVID-19). If you send it by post it will not receive a reply within normal timescale.

Media enquiries

Email

newsdesk@communities.gov.uk

Please use this number if you are a journalist wishing to speak to Press Office

0303 444 1209

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
  3. Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.

Freedom of Information requests

Knowledge & Information Access Team
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
2nd floor NW, Fry Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
United Kingdom

Email

mhclgcorrespondence@communities.gov.uk

During the COVID-19 outbreak, we will be unable to respond to Freedom of Information requests sent to us by post. Please send all FOI requests to mhclgcorrespondence@communities.gov.uk. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, but hope you understand.

High profile groups within MHCLG

  1. Windrush Commemoration Committee

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