Government Axes Housing Advice Unit

The government is closing the organisation set up to give it advice on how to improve the affordability of housing. The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit will close as part of the coalition government’s drive to make savings in the CLG. A CLG spokesperson said: ‘The government has decided to close the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit with immediate effect. This decision has been taken in order to rationalise the number of advisory bodies and to make savings.” Read more on Inside Housing.