Government drops plans to reform social housing allocations

In January the Government consulted on plans to reform the rules for allocating council housing, as reported in ARCH Bulletin 229.  It proposed to reform council housing allocations policy by restricting allocations to applicants with a UK connection, a minimum...

Angela Rayner announces planning and housing reforms

In a statement to the House of Commons on 30 July, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced plans to reform national planning policy and a “council house revolution”, including the major reform of the Right to Buy scheme.  Under the new...