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Newcastle CC welcomes £120m brownfield regeneration deal 19/08/2025 Newcastle City Council has hailed today’s approval of a £121.8m investment as a ‘catalyst for development’ that will deliver thousands of new homes.
Leicester to build 53 council homes on derelict school site 24/02/2025 Work is set to begin on the construction of 53 council homes at a derelict school site in Leicester.
Liverpool City Council sets out plan to deliver 10,000 houses 23/12/2024 Liverpool City Council has set out plans to deliver more than 10,000 new homes in one of Britain’s most deprived areas.
PM announces £68m to unlock brownfield sites 15/10/2024 Local authorities are set to get a multi-million-pound funding boost to unlock disused brownfield sites and build thousands of new homes, PM announces.
Liverpool seeks Festival Gardens developer after £60m clean-up 04/09/2024 Liverpool City Council is set to start searching for a housing developer for a 28-acre site it spent £60m cleaning up.
Plans for £2.3bn ‘Venice of Britain’ scrapped 15/07/2024 Planning applications for a £2.3bn town on the site of a former power station on the Hampshire coast have been withdrawn.
NextGov: Resolving the housing crisis 28/06/2024 The Home Builders Federation’s (HBF) policy and external affairs manager, Laura Markus, discusses what the next government should do to tackle the housing crisis.
Agreement for major York regeneration scheme signed 09/04/2024 An agreement to undertake one of the UK's largest city centre regeneration schemes in York has been signed.
Hull and East Riding finalise devolution proposal 28/03/2024 A devolution proposal for a Hull and East Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority is set to be submitted to the levelling up department.
‘Brownfield first’ reforms unveiled 14/02/2024 Councils in England will be told to prioritise brownfield development and be ‘less bureaucratic’ in their approach to building on previously developed land.
Call for ‘different approach’ to brownfield 24/01/2024 A more ‘systematic, interventionist and collaborative’ method could ‘significantly’ increase the regeneration of brownfield sites in Wales, according to a new report.

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