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Government announces plan that will unblock housebuilding to deliver homes for local communities while protecting the environment.

• Updated: 29 August 2023

CMA publishes progress update on consumer protection work in private rented housing and housebuilding market study.

• Updated: 25 August 2023

These new statistics display the housing starts on site and housing completions delivered by Homes England between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023

• Updated: 27 June 2023

Developers in the River Tees area will be first to be apply for credits to unlock new housing

• Updated: 31 March 2023

A development loan from Homes England helped Esquire to bring forward a sustainable development in the early stages of COVID-19.

• Updated: 19 January 2023

A development loan from Homes England helped The PG Group transform a derelict site in Bristol into a vibrant new neighbourhood

• Updated: 19 January 2023

£60 million available to councils to revive brownfield sites and make way for high quality new homes.

• Updated: 18 January 2023

£20 million from the Levelling Up Fund, will be used to: build a construction skills academy and develop new housing in Sunderland.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

Derbyshire has been provisionally allocated nearly £50 million for significant transport improvements in round 1 of the Levelling Up Fund.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

Small and medium housebuilders struggling to access traditional development finance can take advantage of government funding to get much needed homes built across England

• Updated: 9 January 2023

A development loan from Homes England helped newly-established housebuilder Sky-House Co to grow its business

• Updated: 9 January 2023

A development loan from Homes England helped EDG to convert a derelict vacant office building to create 37 apartments for first-time buyers and key workers in central Coventry.

• Updated: 9 January 2023

The Secretary of State has written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to ask them to consider undertaking a market study of the housebuilding sector.

• Updated: 5 December 2022

The government sets out new measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to place local communities at the heart of the planning system.

• Updated: 5 December 2022

Today’s statistics demonstrate the number of housing starts on site and completions delivered by Homes England between 1 April and 30 September 2022.

• Updated: 1 December 2022

Thousands of new homes will be built on derelict land to create thriving communities and help level up the country.

• Updated: 19 November 2022

Measures to clean up rivers added to Levelling Up Bill, with vital infrastructure to be delivered more quickly.

• Updated: 18 November 2022

We have launched a ‘beta’ planning appeal submission process for more than 30 local planning authority (LPA) areas, marking a step forward in our new service roll-out.

• Updated: 3 October 2022

Derelict and underused brownfield sites across England will be transformed into thousands of new homes, creating thriving communities and levelling up the country.

• Updated: 8 July 2022

The third phase of a major regeneration project in Salford is to benefit from funding from the Levelling Up Home Building Fund

• Updated: 29 June 2022