The government is reportedly backpedalling on its
commitment to overhaul planning laws in order to accelerate infrastructure
projects with a target of building 300,000 homes a year in England. Part of the
government’s “Project Speed”, the new planning laws were announced in the
Queen’s speech with the target of modernising and simplifying the system and
increasing the number of homes being planned by more than a third. The planning
reforms have been met with criticism from countryside campaigners, who said the
changes would lead to the “suburbanisation” of green areas without delivering
much-needed affordable housing. Read more on the Guardian website.
‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who
took on the housing crisis – and won
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When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel,
Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest.
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