The Homes and Communities Agency has held talks with leading fund managers to build social housing across the UK. Localis welcomes this approach, and believes that it is vitally important that the private sector begins to realise the vast potential there is in social and environmental investment, but there is still a long way to go.
Taxpayers will be able to rate the performance of schools, nurseries and the police under a planned shake-up of public services, in proposals that it is claimed were ‘buried’ on the Cabinet Office’s website.
An increasing number of independent care homes for the elderly are being closed because of the recession.
Tom Shakespeare of Localis discusses the implications of the CAA, and poses some key questions that need to be addressed if the new system is to be a success
Millions of council tenants would be given a new ‘right to move’ under radical Tory plans being unveiled today.
Comment on our latest Policy Platform on housing. “Fizzing with ideas”
Plans for Britain’s biggest ever public library were unveiled in Birmingham yesterday
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Alistair Darling bowed to pressure last night and cut the planned 5 per cent rise in business rates that was threatening to cripple many small firms.
Millions of people in seven English counties now come under new council areas.