DCLG has issued information to help local government better understand the New Homes Bonus and how it will operate and be funded. From next year the funding for Bonus payments will explicitly come from the current formula grant pool for local authority support, meaning that those who don’t build houses will lose funding to those [...]
The Localism Bill is set to transform the way in which developers go about engaging with communities and securing planning permission.
Localism and communications specialists PPS Group, in partnership with Estates Gazette and UK Regeneration, is pleased to announce the half day event Regeneration: Delivering Through Localism
At this briefing, ministers and industry experts will set out [...]
From Estates Gazette, 5th February 2011
Below PPS’ Managing Director and localism expert, Stephen Byfield comments in this week’s Estates Gazette on the Save Our Cinema campaign in Hammersmith.
Celebrities are backing a campaign to stop the redevelopment of a 6.5-acre site in their neighbourhood. David Thame reports on the fight to save a west London cinema
A parade [...]
CALA Homes has failed in its latest high court bid to have the government’s interim approach to RSS abolition quashed. The result of the high court judgment is that the government can continue to state that its intention to formally abolish the RSS’s via legislation in the Localism Bill is a material planning consideration. See [...]