The housing minister has set a two-and-a-half-year target for local plan-making and allocated funding to councils to review ...

Planning authorities will be required to adopt new local plans within 30 months of starting the process despite concerns from ...

Work on a number of new towns will begin before the next general election after more than 100 locations across England were put forward, Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has pledged. The government ...

Construction work on the government’s new towns programme will start within the next four years, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has said. Pennycook told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning ...

The Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Matthew Pennycook MP, has visited the first residential phase of the new Oxford North ...

The UK’s housing crisis “hampers economic growth and productivity”, the housing minister has said, as he insisted the target of 1.5m new homes can be achieved. Labour pledged in its ...

A WhatsApp group in which MP Andrew Gwynne posted “completely unacceptable” messages is being investigated, a minister has said. Housing minister Matthew Pennycook could not say if others in the chat, ...

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Matthew Pennycook is the latest government minister to suggest the UK is projected to be the fastest growing European economy ...

“I will co-operate fully with the Labour Party’s investigation.” Earlier housing minister Matthew Pennycook could not say if others in the chat will be suspended, but suggested the Prime ...

Work on a number of new towns will begin before the next general election after more than 100 locations across England were put forward, Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has pledged. The ...

It’s a busy few months ahead for the Government’s housing policy if ministerial answers are anything to go by.