As the Government moves to expand mayoral planning powers, Curia is calling for the next phase of planning reform to ensure that greater authority to approve development comes with greater responsibility to get homes built.
Curia has spent years calling for a clearer, more predictable national planning policy framework – now Government reform is moving in that direction, and the next battle is how mayors use devolution to turn those changes into homes, infrastructure, and growth.
The Government’s station-building revolution has created an immediate political test for Kemi Badenoch and Conservative councils opposed to development.
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Crawley MP, Peter Lamb writes that to improving health, we must improve people’s homes.
We have spent £20 billion rolling out fibre across the UK – yet 90 per cent of social homes remain offline. If we are serious about prevention, productivity and public service reform, the next growth frontier is not just building more homes – it is connecting the ones we already have.
Seven new towns delivering up to 40,000 homes each are being proposed as part of the most ambitious housebuilding programme in more than half a century, alongside a new National Housing Bank to unlock billions in investment.
A new Curia report argues that the fastest way to ease NHS pressures is through warmer, safer, better-designed healthy homes – with insights from Peter Dowd MP and local leaders across the North West.
Chair of the Liverpool City Region APPG, Peter Dowd MP warns that the key to tackling rising NHS pressure may start with healthier homes.
11 million English renters will now benefit from increased protections
With the Chancellor’s Budget weeks away, planning reform has become the Government’s chosen lever for economic growth – but to build 1.5 million homes, real progress will depend on rebuilding local capacity, devolving power, and proving Britain can deliver what it plans.
On Thursday 11th September, Chamber Group, Curia and UKAI heard from Bill Esterson, MP for Sefton Central, at the Get Britain Growing: North West Conference. Esterson’s pride at the North West’s successful development was immediately tacit: ‘We really are at the forefront of what is happening nationally’. But, the ubiquitous political caveat abides: more can always be done – ‘there is a massive opportunity right now for the foreseeable future’.
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