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Direct contact 020 7944 4400A new joint rapid response unit has been set up and is in operation, ready to deploy finance experts to local authorities who need assistance following the failures of Icelandic banks.
Updated: 14 October 2008
This circular is in support of the newly published Generic Risk Assessment 3.2 High Rise Firefighting version 2.
Updated: 14 October 2008
This letter from the Director of Communities Group in Communities and Local Government accompanies the Secretary of State's formal invitation and outlines the agreed process for making proposals and reaching decisions.
Updated: 14 October 2008
This document summarises the key lessons learnt from LAA negotiations in 2008. It aims to support the development of arrangements for the programme, with a particular focus on influencing the forthcoming annual review and refresh.
Updated: 14 October 2008
This circular is in support of the newly published Fire and Rescue Service Manual – Volume 2, Fire Service Operations – Environmental Protection.
Updated: 14 October 2008
This release provides information on house prices based on mortgage completion information during the month of August 2008.
Updated: 14 October 2008
This newsletter contains details of the new projects in Communities and Local Government’s 2008-09 Building Regulations research and technical support programme.
Updated: 13 October 2008
Consultation on the technical definitions and method of measuring and reporting on 13 deferred or revised national indicators.
Updated: 13 October 2008
Urban parks, marshlands, waterways and green spaces will be as integral as housing, jobs and commerce in the Thames Gateway of the future, Housing Minister Iain Wright has announced.
Updated: 10 October 2008
Speech by Iain Wright MP at the Thames Gateway Green Forum 2008.
Updated: 10 October 2008
Statement issued jointly by Government and the LGA following their meeting to discuss councils' investments in Icelandic banks.
Updated: 10 October 2008
This report sets out the results of a rapid evidence assessment of the research literature on the purchase and use of second homes.
Updated: 10 October 2008
A summary map of the Parklands Vision report.
Updated: 9 October 2008
The aim of this document is to provide a coherant framework from Parklands projects, and suggests ways in which the public, private and third sectors can help to deliver it.
Updated: 9 October 2008
All councils are required to report the total Value for Money gains they have achieved through National Indicator 179. This guidance sets out the basic principles and requirements for measuring and reporting VfM gains.
Updated: 9 October 2008
A new Communities and Local Government ministerial team has been announced in the Cabinet reshuffle.
Updated: 8 October 2008
This circular provides information about the costs associated with the New Dimension maintenance contract.
Updated: 8 October 2008
This consultation paper sets out, and seeks view on, the initial proposals for designation in rural areas.
Updated: 8 October 2008
This publication summarises the changes made to the Code for Sustainable Homes Technical Guidance between the April 2008 version and the October 2008 version.
Updated: 8 October 2008
This technical guidance manual sets out the requirements for the Code for Sustainable Homes, and the process by which a Code assessment is reached.
Updated: 8 October 2008
This technical guidance manual sets out the requirements for the Code for Sustainable Homes, and the process by which a Code assessment is reached.
Updated: 8 October 2008
This document is the Government's report on the consulatation paper, 'Moving the date of English Local Government Elections to the date of the European Parliament Elections in 2009'.
Updated: 8 October 2008
This consultation paper invites views on proposals for revising the model code of conduct for local authority members.
Updated: 8 October 2008
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Children and Families Secretary Ed Balls will today launch a new Young Muslim Advisory Group and unveil the names of the twenty two young people who will act as advisors.
Updated: 7 October 2008
Local Government Minister John Healey today announced that the Government will seek Parliament’s approval to move the 2009 local elections in England to the same date as the European elections.
Updated: 7 October 2008
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today named the twenty two projects that will share in a £1.3 m Community leadership Fund aimed at supporting Muslim communities to unlock the potential of local people to take a lead on tackling violent extremism.
Updated: 7 October 2008
This theme report explores the role that neighbourhood management can play in promoting community cohesion by examining the experience of five case study pathfinder areas.
Updated: 6 October 2008
The report provides an overview of how neighbourhood management activity has been extended beyond the pathfinder areas into other neighbourhoods.
Updated: 6 October 2008
This report draws together findings from an extensive evaluation of neighbourhood management pathfinders conducted between 2002 and 2008 including household survey analyses, interviews and case studies.
Updated: 6 October 2008
This guidance note provides advice on the propriety issues that can arise in connection with the decision making process in carrying out the Secretary of State's functions under the Town and Country Planning Acts.
Updated: 6 October 2008
Communities and Local Government and the Office of the Third Sector are seeking expressions of interest from organisations wishing to become the single National Partner to deliver the Communitybuilders programme.
Updated: 6 October 2008
This report sets out the views expressed on the draft Participatory Budgeting National Strategy and the Government’s response to them.
Updated: 6 October 2008
This consultation paper seeks views on the Government's proposals for a reformed Local Authority Business Growth Incentives (LABGI) scheme.
Updated: 6 October 2008
Detailed update to February's statement of all Communities and Local Government regulations due for commencement in 2008 and that will have a bearing on business.
Updated: 6 October 2008
Research undertaken for the Department by Cyril Sweett Ltd to assess the costs and benefits of the Government's proposals to reduce the carbon footprint of new housing development in support of zero carbon homes policy.
Updated: 6 October 2008
Speech by Iain Wright MP at an event to mark the final roll out of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs).
Updated: 4 October 2008
Response to the Government's consultation paper on proposals to streamline procedures associated with tree preservation orders (TPOs) in England.
Updated: 3 October 2008
This guide describes the scope and requirements of the regulations applying to EPCs when homes are being sold or let and provides guidance on how these are applied.
Updated: 3 October 2008
This publication documents the approved methodologies that can be used to produce Energy Performance Cerfiticates and Display Energy Certificates.
Updated: 3 October 2008
A new regional strategy that directs long-term housing and economic growth and environmental protection in the North West was announced by Communities Minister Baroness Andrews today.
Updated: 2 October 2008
Ordnance Survey is giving away 'Free-Maps-for-11-year-olds' to encourage children to get out and discover the world around them, Ordnance Survey Minister Iain Wright announced today.
Updated: 2 October 2008
Proposals to enhance the ethical framework for councillors will be set out today, including clarifying the application of the framework to the conduct of councillors in their private lives.
Updated: 2 October 2008
This report sets out an analysis of responses received to the informal consultation on ABS provisions within the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Updated: 2 October 2008
New research shows that 79 per cent of renters are worried about the cost of their household bills.
Updated: 1 October 2008
This divisional letter accompanies Circular 05/2008 which explains The Building (Electronic Communications) Order 2008 (SI 2008/2334).
Updated: 1 October 2008
Statement by Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Updated: 1 October 2008
Improving your home just became a whole lot easier for tens of thousands of families Housing and Planning Minister Caroline Flint announced today.
Updated: 1 October 2008
This publication evaluates the pilot scheme developed to support the roll-out of EPCs to rented properties, in particular social housing.
Updated: 30 September 2008
Backward Look efficiency statements setting out the efficiency gains local authorities in England achieved during 2007-08. Published 30 September 2008.
Updated: 30 September 2008
This circular informs Fire and Rescue Authorities and senior staff in the Fire and Rescue Service of progress with the Fire and Resilience Programme.
Updated: 29 September 2008
