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• Winterton - More support for British citizens in Spain

  Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton this week welcomed progress to give better protection to UK citizens living in or considering moving to Spain.

  • Added: 19 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• Government review to spur on regeneration in coalfield communities

  Housing Minister John Healey launched a review to give a new boost to the regeneration of former coal mining areas devastated by the closure of the pits, at a conference in Doncaster today.

  • Added: 19 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey extends Government help to keep repossession as a last resort

  Housing Minister John Healey has today announced he will be extending a Government campaign across the country with a special local push in 86 repossession "hotspot areas".

  • Added: 16 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• Decrease in homelessness continues as new statistics show 72 per cent reduction

  New national statistics released today show that despite the tough economic times, the number of those accepted as homeless is down by 72 per cent since 2003.

  • Added: 11 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey: Green overhaul for planning system to cut emissions and bills

  Housing and Planning Minister John Healey has today announced a triple boost for councils tackling climate change by updating planning rules, granting nearly £10m to improve green skills and backing further progress by the "second wave" of eco-towns.

  • Added: 9 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey: £83 million backing for first time buyers and housebuilding jobs

  Housing Minister John Healey has today announced £83 million to get building over 5,700 new and affordable homes stalled by the recession back on track.

  • Added: 8 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey pledges support to a new vision for Byker

  Housing Minister John Healey has pledged to give his full support to a new vision published on the 4 March 2010 for the future of the iconic Byker estate.

  • Added: 4 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• Cutting red tape and saving money for developers to help drive recovery

  A package of planning system reforms saving developers time and money to help them complete building projects during the recovery have now been approved by parliament, Planning Minister John Healey confirmed today.

  • Added: 4 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey offers help for working social tenants

  Housing Minister John Healey has today announced plans for tenants with a new job offer to get Government help to find a new home.

  • Added: 3 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• New green strategy will overhaul Britain's homes

  A green transformation of Britain's homes will take place over the next decade - making them more comfortable, warmer and cheaper to run - under new plans set out by the Government today.

  • Added: 2 March 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey outlines Government response to Mayor's London Housing Strategy

  Housing Minister John Healey has outlines the Government's response to the Mayor of London's plans for affordable housing in the Capital.

  • Added: 27 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey announces further £500m boost for affordable homes

  Housing Minister John Healey today announced a boost to housebuilding in England, by confirming nearly £500 million funding to build around 8,000 affordable homes across the country.

  • Added: 23 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey: New sites will lay the foundations for new deal in housebuilding

  Housing Minister John Healey has today hailed the start of a new deal in housebuilding with the first Government-owned land being made available under the Public Land Initiative for much-needed new homes.

  • Added: 17 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey: Repossession help will continue

  Housing Minister John Healey today said that Government will keep help in place for struggling homeowners as new figures published today showed that repossessions court activity has dropped by over a third compared with 2008.

  • Added: 11 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey: Over £60m to lay green foundations of eco-towns

  Housing Minister John Healey has today backed the country's biggest ever green home building programme, with four areas sharing £60m cash to build over 600 new homes to the toughest ever environmental standards.

  • Added: 8 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• Healey: Cash for Crackdown on Empty Homes and Anti-Social Behaviour

  Housing Minister John Healey today announced extra support for councils to step up efforts to get empty homes back in use and reduce anti-social behaviour, including cash for an intensive crackdown in 17 local authority areas with known problems.

  • Added: 5 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey confirms lower rents increase for council tenants

  Housing Minister John Healey confirmed a good deal for tenants in council houses today after he announced guideline rent increases will be halved for 2010-11.

  • Added: 3 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey backs private tenants with extra help and protection

  Housing Minister John Healey today announced new practical help and protection for tenants in privately rented homes.

  • Added: 3 February 2010
  • Site: Housing

• Government backs proposals for greater legal protection for tenants

  The Government has today given its formal backing to a backbench bill aimed at giving tenants greater protection when their landlords face repossession action.

  • Added: 29 January 2010
  • Site: Housing

• John Healey: Local powers for councils to protect communities and improve standards in the private rented sector

  Housing and Planning Minister John Healey today announced new local powers to control the spread of high concentrations of shared rented homes and to tackle pockets of unsafe and substandard accommodation run by bad landlords.

  • Added: 27 January 2010
  • Site: Housing