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Labour’s planning policy changes are welcome, but won’t deliver enough homes | Letters dlvr.it/TDddzQ
Labour’s planning policy changes are welcome, but won’t deliver enough homes | Letters

Labour’s planning policy changes are welcome, but won’t deliver enough homes | Letters

Letters: In response to an article on planning approvals falling to a 10-year low in England, Kate Henderson argues for a big increase in social housing funding while Jon Barker points to the large...

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Mortgage rate war continues as Nationwide launches cheapest deal with 3.74% interest dlvr.it/TDb6qv

Mortgage rate war continues as Nationwide launches 3.74% deal

Nationwide is launching the cheapest mortgage, with rates starting from 3.74%. Experts have welcomed rates falling.

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Ed Miliband pledges to end scourge of cold and draughty rented homes dlvr.it/TDb6Fc
Ed Miliband pledges to end scourge of cold and draughty rented homes

Ed Miliband pledges to end scourge of cold and draughty rented homes

Labour will bring in regulations that apply to social as well as private housing, says energy secretary

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Angela Rayner hints at major social housing announcement dlvr.it/TDYK6r
Angela Rayner hints at major social housing announcement

Angela Rayner hints at major social housing announcement

Deputy prime minister tells Labour conference she expects chancellor to make promise on building at spending review

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Nimby name-calling will not solve Britain’s housing crisis | Letters dlvr.it/TDYK6N
Nimby name-calling will not solve Britain’s housing crisis | Letters

Nimby name-calling will not solve Britain’s housing crisis | Letters

Letters: Hazel Davies says the problem is one of affordability and accessibility, not actual physical supply; Helena Forsyth says the focus should be on underoccupied and empty homes. Plus a letter...

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‘Change begins’ is Labour’s conference slogan. It should start with its approach to housing | John Harris dlvr.it/TDXsbN

Labour, beware: Britain’s housing crisis is driving voters towards populism | John Harris

Whenever I talk to people who are bitterly disconnected from politics, they raise the lack of decent homes, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Unite leader Sharon Graham accuses Labour of ‘walking us into austerity mark 2’ – Labour conference live dlvr.it/TDXf4V
Labour conference: No 10 braced for potential defeat on winter fuel allowance vote as trade unions...

Labour conference: No 10 braced for potential defeat on winter fuel allowance vote as trade unions...

Unison and GMB understood to be likely to back motion to reverse policy

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‘Planning passports’ that automatically approve high-quality new homes will be a game-changer, says Keir Starmer dlvr.it/TDWzN6
‘Planning passports’ that automatically approve high-quality new homes will be a game-changer, says...

‘Planning passports’ that automatically approve high-quality new homes will be a game-changer, says...

Labour wants to see apartment blocks built in more densely populated cities to achieve its housing targets

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Is Labour on track to meet its promises on the environment? dlvr.it/TDVss9
Is Labour on track to meet its promises on the environment?

Is Labour on track to meet its promises on the environment?

Though the party has plenty to celebrate at its first conference in power for 15 years, there is much work to do to on net zero

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‘Without a purpose, it’s nothing’: the London restaurant serving up a solution to homelessness dlvr.it/TDTr3t
Michelin-starred chef opens London restaurant staffed by homeless people

Michelin-starred chef opens London restaurant staffed by homeless people

Adam Simmonds hopes Home Kitchen will offer jobs, change public perceptions and answer an industry need

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Interest rates held at 5%: What it means for your mortgage and savings dlvr.it/TDTVYl
No cut! Bank of England holds base rate at 5% - what it means for you

No cut! Bank of England holds base rate at 5% - what it means for you

We explain what the Bank of England's decision to stick at 5% means for your finances - and whether rates will be cut again soon.

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AOC introduces legislation for low-cost housing programme backed by US funding dlvr.it/TDRZVQ

AOC introduces legislation for low-cost housing programme backed by US funding

Together with Minnesota senator Tina Smith, the representative is trying to address the US ‘housing crisis’

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New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade dlvr.it/TDQ9r7
New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade

New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade

Housebuilders blame decline on former government’s decision to end binding targets for local authorities

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Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey dlvr.it/TDGRY7
Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey

Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey

Pro-building Labour group hopes study will spur on major planning reform and government drive to build 1.5m homes

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‘The moment has come’: pro-building Labour yimbys are set to raise the roof dlvr.it/TDGRXP
‘The moment has come’: pro-building Labour yimbys are set to raise the roof

‘The moment has come’: pro-building Labour yimbys are set to raise the roof

Proponents of more homes, turbines and infrastructure – even on the green belt – prepare for rally at party conference

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The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold dlvr.it/TDFmQY
The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold

The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold

Ministers should stop wasting their time – and their hefty mandate – trying to make failed Tory policies work

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London’s Olympics have given the city a legacy to be proud of | Letters dlvr.it/TDC7rb
London’s Olympics have given the city a legacy to be proud of | Letters

London’s Olympics have given the city a legacy to be proud of | Letters

Letters: Lyn Garner says the Games resulted in an improved quality of life for local people, while Gavin Poole says the legacy of the Games is best seen in the expansion of education and culture....

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Nationwide, NatWest and TSB slash mortgage rates for buyers with smaller deposits dlvr.it/TD8wGW
Nationwide, NatWest and TSB cut mortgage rates

Nationwide, NatWest and TSB cut mortgage rates

Major lenders have today revealed further mortgage rate cuts across fixed deals.

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Tell us: we want to hear from renters and landlords on Labour’s renters’ rights bill dlvr.it/TD88r0
Tell us: we want to hear from renters and landlords on Labour’s renters’ rights bill

Tell us: we want to hear from renters and landlords on Labour’s renters’ rights bill

The plans include banning “no-fault” evictions and rental bidding wars

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Thursday briefing: How the long-awaited renters’ reform bill could transform housing as we know it dlvr.it/TD7WR6
Thursday briefing: How the long-awaited renters’ reform bill could transform housing as we know it

Thursday briefing: How the long-awaited renters’ reform bill could transform housing as we know it

In today’s newsletter: Labour’s new plans aim to solve people’s rental market woes once and for all. But what will change for the millions of people renting?

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