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Settling down: Many young people cannot afford to keep living where they grew up.
Govt plans house building referendums

By politics.co.uk staff Local communities could hold local referendums on modest house-building projects under new plans being put forward by the housing minister. Grant Shapps said council planning permission could be replaced by local housing trusts debates which would be followed by a referendum on whether house building goes ahead. Countryside preservation groups are opposed… Read more »

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Clarke wants to save 'vital green space'
Coalition to end ‘garden grab’ development

By politics.co.uk staff Gardens will no longer be classified as brownfield sites in a bid to stop developers taking them over, according to the government. Communities minister Greg Clarke is expected to announce later today that vital green space can no longer be treated in the same was as ex-factory or railway land. “For years… Read more »