Policy News – Page 72
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£750m consultants’ framework to go live as legal row ‘stayed’
Controversial government procurement framework finally ready despite T T’s compensation claim
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Six councils get £60m housebuilding fund
Government scheme to enable councils to borrow to fund housing development still has £178m left with just one week to go
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Hinkley nuclear project could face four-year legal wrangle
Lawyers warn Austrian challenge to European Commission’s go-ahead for £16bn nuclear power project could lead to long delay
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Lib Dems reject move to back expansion of Gatwick airport
Liberal Democrat leaderships’ proposal to change party policy on airport expansion defeated
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Davey unveils £100m Green Deal boost
Energy secretary to announce fresh £100m to reopen Green Deal cash-back incentive scheme
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Cable calls for 'help to build, not help to buy'
Business secretary says borrowing more to invest in housebuilding and infrastructure is ‘no brainer’ and hits out at government’s Help to Buy scheme
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Lib Dems pledge 50,000 homes in garden cities
Party says homes will be built along route of a reopened Oxford to Cambridge train line
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Developer warns over viability of Ebbsfleet garden city
Developer of government-backed garden city says it is “struggling” to make 15,000-home scheme viable
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Pickles hails increase in planning permissions
Communities secretary uses party conference speech to hail an increase in residential planning applications submitted in the last year
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Thames Tideway boss to chair government infrastructure group
Andy Mitchell appointed chair of the Infrastructure Client Group set up to drive cost savings on government-procured infrastructure projects
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Full list: 35 new free schools approved
Education secretary Nicky Morgan signs off creation of 35 new schools
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Architecture minister insists industry holds key to Farrell reforms
Ed Vaizey says it is up to the industry and not government to implement the findings of the Farrell Review
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Osborne pledges Tory focus on infrastructure
George Osborne says Conservative government would prioritise investment in infrastructure and create a connected “powerhouse” of northern cities
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Garden cities plan underfire from Conservatives
Tory MP hits out at government’s proposal for a raft of new garden cities
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Tories unveil plans for 100,000 'starter homes'
Conservatives set out plan for discounted homes to be built for first-time buyers on brownfied land
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Green Deal loan firm 'could be wound up'
Chief executive of company that provides Green Deal finance warns it could be wound up soon unless it gets more funding
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Housebuilders hit back at Labour's land-banking claims
Ed Miliband attacks developers for hoarding land in latest party political broadcast
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Labour pledges crackdown on 'umbrella' employment schemes
NHS boost to be part-funded by stamping out schemes designed to sidestep bogus self-employment crackdown
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Labour will make 'swift decision' on airport capacity
Shadow transport secretary tells Labour party conference issue will not be “kicked into the long grass”