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Planning policy

January 2025

  • Rachel Reeves in a satin long-sleeved shirt and pleated skirt sits near a fireplace in her 11 Downing Street office, raising both hands as she speaks

    Reeves thinks big on planning and growth with housebuilding project

  • An airbus hovers close to housing near Heathrow airport

    Labour risks ‘powder keg’ clash with environmentalists as it puts growth before going green

  • Simon Jenkins

    Starmer wants the economy to grow, baby, grow. Woe betide the ‘blockers’ who get in his way

    Simon Jenkins
  • Andrew Boswell

    Activist hits back at Starmer for ‘demonising’ him as green ‘zealot’

  • Legal challenges to infrastructure plans to be blocked in Starmer growth push

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Royal Navy ships mobilised to respond to Russian spy ship in North Sea, defence secretary tells MPs – as it happened

  • Rayner urged to approve Marlow film studios in test of Labour planning policy

  • Devon council urged to halt demolition of historic mill buildings

December 2024

  • Kathryn Moore leans over a large table with multiple coloured maps, 31st October, 2024.

    ‘When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor’: the landscape architect viewing the West Midlands as a national park

  • A shuttered Sam Smiths pub in Droitwich, Worcestershire.

    How Labour could save failing community pubs

  • A view of buildings on the South Bank from a bridge over the River Thames

    Court clears way for ‘the Slab’ office block to be built on London’s South Bank

  • Angela Rayner during a visit to a construction site

    Thousands of affordable homes ‘held up by lack of money from providers’

  • The Guardian view on local government reform: the risk is disruption but no progress

  • Mayors to get powers to stop planning delays in England, Angela Rayner to say

  • Labour needs to build trust as well as housing

  • Labour condemned for allowing ‘new generation of slum homes’ in England

  • Labour plan for 1.5m new homes is not feasible, housebuilding firm says

  • UK housing crisis: what does Labour’s shake-up of planning rules involve?

  • Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis, says Starmer

  • England’s new towns must be walkable and green, say campaigners

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