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Charity calls for ‘ambitious’ brownfield housing targets

24/09/2025

Brownfield land could provide nearly 1.5 million new homes to help meet the Government’s goals, figures have revealed.

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Planning applications for a £2.3bn town on the site of a former power station on the Hampshire coast have been withdrawn.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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