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Call comes after Rachel Reeves announced new approach to planning to meet ambitious goal on home building

Labour has a historic opportunity to combat regional inequality. Empowering regional mayors is the place to start, says Michael Heseltine, a former Conservative deputy prime minister

Change begins now, as the Prime Minister told his party after the election, and change is very much on the agenda in housing. The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is talking about imposing mandatory housing targets on councils. The recent changes to planning laws whereby new developments could be challenged if they…

The new Labour government has re-affirmed its promise to ban section 21 and committed to building 1.5 million new homes

MPs will hear assessment this month as new chancellor tries to pin blame on Tories for tough decisions ahead

Britain’s new Treasury chief says the Labour government will make stimulating economic growth its mission while limiting bureaucracy to make it easier to invest in the country

New chancellor has vowed to ‘get Britain building again … get Britain growing again’ to reboot the economy

The chancellor said she had repeatedly warned about the dire state of the public finances during the general election, and ‘what I have seen in the past 72 hours has only confirmed that’

Rachel Reeves says she will revise planning policy and decisions should be taken ‘nationally, not locally’