Housing

The ‘Second National Infrastructure Assessment’ was released today (18 October) by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).

The co-leaders of the Green Party will today (6 October) unveil the next generation of Green MPs alongside plans to ensure everybody can afford a quality home.

Nick Bowett stresses the need to start thinking about how we can preserve green garden space.

With their sights set on energy efficiency, policymakers neglect that green renovations are driving up rents for the most vulnerable. Only with strong social protections and a shift away ...

The Green Party has revealed their plans to move the UK’s Earth Overshoot Day later into the year with a focus on energy, housing and transport.

The Party renews its housing calls as Michael Gove announces the relaxing of planning rules to create more homes in city centres.

Green peer Natalie Bennett told the House of Lords that she was in ‘Green Heaven’ as peers debated housing insulation, green spaces and more. She discusses her thoughts at hearing what ‘t...

Sophus zu Ermgassen (University of Oxford), Christine Corlet Walker (Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey) and Josh Ryan-Collins (Institute for Inn...

Co-leader Carla Denyer: The latest price rise is a ‘horrifying blow to households’ and a reminder of ‘how broken our energy system is’.

Shropshire and Shrewsbury Councillor Julian Dean looks at how local Greens in power are driving the retrofit agenda across the UK.

Green Party member Lucy Phillip outlines the Eco Planning Law petition, calling for support to challenge the Government’s failure to protect our rapidly disappearing greenfields.

Our co-leaders’ vision to deliver warmer homes will follow the “The Lewes Model” – what does this entail? Green councillor and leader of Lewes District Council Zoe Nicholson lays out the ...

Councillor Emily O'Brien highlights how the 'damaged trust' embedded within the planning system can be healed, reflecting on how her local council united in voting to adopt the Healthy Ho...

Bristol Councillor Tom Hathway and London Assembly Member Sian Berry highlight the failures of the private rented sector, leading the call for rent controls in major cities.

Caroline Lucas MP recently responded to the Government’s Net Zero and Heat and Building strategies, calling them ‘deeply worrying’ and ‘nowhere near ambitious enough’, respectively. ...

Some people have a lot to gain from Government-backed retrofitting, says Simon Pickering. He outlines how, alongside delivering emissions reductions, insulation could be particularly bene...

Cllr Steve Hynd outlines Stroud District Council’s plans to retrofit, insulate and decarbonise its five thousand-strong housing stock, emphasising the difference that central government c...

Following the cabinet reshuffle, Michael Gove was appointed Minister of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Previously titled the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Governmen...

For one week in June 2021, a derelict plot – which once housed a public swimming pool but was sold off to developers in 2004 – was reclaimed by York residents, and a boat called Sue. Patr...

Rupert Read reflects on Insulate Britain’s M25 protests, encouraging the group to shift towards a more positive strategy in order to gain public support.