Communities and Local Government

Home buyers can access more information about their new home without having to pay for the information, the Government announced today. (continues...)

Action that will stop the forced regionalisation of fires services and hand more control back to local services will be announced by Fire Minister Bob Neill today. (continues...)

Housing Minster Grant Shapps today set out further steps for all new homes to be zero carbon from 2016. The plans outlined by Mr Shapps aim to give councils and developers much more flexibility to decide how to meet the ambitious eco-standards. (continues...)

New additional estimates published today show that the number of people sleeping rough on the streets could be more than treble the official national Rough Sleeping Count - a truer reflection of the problem according to Housing Minister Grant Shapps. (continues...)

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today set out his vision for protecting the future of rural village life for generations to come, by giving local communities the power to build the homes they need. (continues...)

Only a minority of people feel that they can influence local decisions or have engaged in some form of civic participation in the last year, according to survey findings published today. (continues...)

Eric Pickles has today announced the Government's intention in principle to abolish the remaining eight Government Offices for the Regions across England. (continues...)

Government Ministers today revealed that they have taken swift action to tackle an enforcement notice issued by Communities and Local Government against itself for breaking fire safety rules. (continues...)

Local Government Minister Bob Neill today reaffirmed the industry saving action taken by the new Government to help many port-based businesses after being hit with significant and unexpected port taxes in 2008. (continues...)

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today outlined how the Coalition Government will provide much-needed support to homeowners at risk of repossession. (continues...)

Immediate action to scrap laws introduced by the previous government to tax homeowners for bin collections was confirmed by the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman today. (continues...)

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today announced that the numbers of rough sleepers have hit an 11-year low - but that he is reviewing the way counts are conducted. (continues...)

A new action plan for the radical shift of power from Whitehall to local councils and communities that will make the Big Society part of every day life was published by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles today. (continues...)

The new Government has today stripped away another layer of costly red tape by freeing councils to improve how they are run without holding expensive local talking shops. (continues...)

The Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles MP, today pledged to end the mismanagement of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). (continues...)

A radical plan to banish nonsense red tape and repeal unnecessary laws was unveiled by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles today. (continues...)

Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is today putting a swift end to Whitehall's grip on local planning policy by scrapping Regional Strategies and their centrally imposed building targets that failed to increase housebuilding. (continues...)

Council job adverts should be syndicated across the internet, to save money, increase transparency and help reduce pointless posts, Eric Pickles, Local Government Secretary will say today. (continues...)