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Why is Labour failing to join the dots on housing delivery and the climate?
The government needs to add retrofits, climate-safe building and sustainable infrastructure to its to-do list, says Martha Dillon
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Absent Angela and pleas for council housing: the AJ at Labour Conference 2024
This year's rain-soaked Labour party conference was ‘a housing conference with politics on the side’, according to one panellist. So what did the AJ team learn from its three days mixing with the new party in power in Liverpool?
Labour Conference blog: ‘If the housing minister hadn’t heard of AA4AH before, he has now!’
Three Labour Party Conference attendees reflect on the battle to get architects heard, the battle to deliver decent homes at pace – and the battle of the metro mayor DJs
We need a 20-year national retrofit plan, Labour peer tells AJ Retrofit Live
The government should embark on a 20-year national retrofit plan to insulate 20 million homes, Labour peer Baroness Barbara Young told yesterday’s AJ Retrofit Live event
Government outlines ambitious planning reforms and New Towns taskforce
Housing secretary Angela Rayner has outlined planning reforms to deliver 370,000 homes every year in a major speech, as proposals for a new towns taskforce were unveiled
Health of housing market ‘worse than 20 years ago’ says new Barker review
Housing expert Kate Barker has said UK housing is in a worse state now than when she wrote her flagship report on it 20 years ago
Rayner ditches ‘gimmicky’ Levelling Up title from department’s name
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has ditched the term ‘levelling up’ from the government’s housing, communities and local government department
‘I’m optimistic about a Labour government. Here’s why’
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ Andy Macintosh looks at how a new government could quickly deliver on social and affordable housing – and why Labour’s vow to support local councils could be a gamechanger
Will a new Labour government build more car-dependent urban sprawl?
Labour is right to focus on the housing crisis but the party urgently needs a joined-up strategy to deliver sustainable urban growth, argues Tom Slater
Labour manifesto promises 1.5m homes and commits to new towns
The Labour Party manifesto has committed to building 1.5 million homes during the next parliament if the party forms the next government