Spare a thought for the people, particularly the 20-and-30-something millennials, who struggle to pay rent, and can only dream about affording a deposit to buy a home of their own. For lots of us, rent or mortgages gobble up more than half our wages. That doesn’t leave much for other…
Read MoreHousing developers should be given an “enormous shot in the arm” and charged council tax and business rates as soon as planning permission is granted, a Tory former minister has urged. John Penrose told MPs “the meter should start running” immediately after developers are granted permission in order to ramp…
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Fed up with everybody banging on about Brexit yet? Me too. But hang on a moment because, no matter how bored you’ve got with it since the referendum 2 years ago, it turns out there’s some stuff which might gladden your heart if we handle it right after we leave.…
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A housing masterplan should have been ‘bolder’ by recommending multi-storey housing blocks for places like Weston-super-Mare instead of creating new ‘garden villages’, according to MP John Penrose. Mr Penrose, MP for Weston and the surrounding villages, was responding to a consultation for the West of England’s Joint Spatial Plan (JSP)…
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