Skip to main content

Help improve GOV.UK Sign up to take part in user research (opens in a new tab)

News and communications

Skip to results

5,406 results

Skip to results
5,406 results sorted by Updated (newest)
About Housing, local and community
  • Shapps gives more power to councils to solve local problems with shared homes

    Housing Minister Grant Shapps announces more power for councils to manage shared homes in their area.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Power for councils to manage shared homes in their area

    Housing Minister Grant Shapps today announced that councils will have greater flexibility to manage concentrations of shared housing in their…

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Grants Shapps taking action to address homelessness

    Housing Minister Grant Shapps has chaired the first cross government meeting aimed at tackling homelessness.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Rough sleeping count masks real scale of the problem

    as PM gives Ministers in eight Government departments responsibility for homeless Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today removed the mask…

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Grant Shapps welcomes good news on housing market

    Grant Shapps has welcomed a new report from an independent industry body showing that the abolition of HIPs is giving a boost to the house market.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The restoration of Chiswick House Gardens

    £12 million restoration unveiled.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Honours for local government leaders

    Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary at DCLG, has been honoured alongside other local government leaders in the Queen's birthday honours.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New study shows support for new homes

    The British public are far more supportive of new housing developments in their area than commonly thought, according to a new study.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Shapps promise to landlords: no more red tape

    Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced that he will be scrapping plans to introduce new regulations on private landlords.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Previously developed land and density

    I am today implementing the commitments made in the Coalition Agreement to decentralise the planning system by giving Local Authorities the…

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New powers to prevent unwanted 'garden grabbing'

    Councils and communities are being given immediate powers to prevent the destructive practice of ‘garden grabbing’ and to decide what types …

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New powers preventing unwanted 'garden grabbing'

    Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark announces new plans to take gardens out of the brownfield category.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Age of aspiration

    Draft text of the speech - may differ from the delivered version. Introduction Thank you to Robert Peto for your very kind introduction …

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Have your say on our programme

    The Government’s Culture, Olympics, media and sport programme is online and commentable.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Our contribution to reducing the Government deficit

    We will contribute £61 million from our budget towards reducing the Government deficit, plus savings of £27 million from the Olympics budget.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Age of aspiration

    Grant Shapps has heralded the return of an 'age of aspiration' for those struggling to get their first foothold on the property ladder.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Port businesses tell minister his tax freeze is saving jobs

    Local Government Minister hears first hand how port-based businesses are benefiting from the tax freeze.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Communities are doing it for themselves: The Archers show how it can be done

    Minister for Decentralisation Greg Clark congratulates the people of Ambridge for saving their local shop.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Housing Minister urges housing association executives to commit to pay transparency

    Grant Shapps calls on housing association executies to publish their salaries.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Great Western Railway Reflections

    Exhibition at National Rail Museum in York celebrates the 175th anniversary of the founding of the GWR.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government