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Category Archives: Housing
Some significant theme debates in Parliament
Each week in Parliament there are debates and questions that take place and it is always interesting to observe what emerges from our local MPs and occasionally other MPs that raise themes for our area. It is always fascinating most … Continue reading
A call for responding empty buildings in town centres
At the beginning of last week Caroline Ansell who is the MP for Eastbourne asked questions about empty buildings in town centres. The response came from Dehenna Davison who is the Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland and also a Government … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing, Parliament and Democracy, Planning Rules
Tagged Caroline Ansell, Dehenna Davison
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Will Parliament endorse a vital Bill from Chris Stephens?
This evening one of my friends, Rabbi Elli Sarah tweeted a message that can be seen here and it states Can you help #refugees reach safety? Please join me in supporting this case. #RefugeesWelcome #SafeRoutesNow crowdjustice.com/case/refugee-l… via @CrowdJustice and the … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Community Safety, Housing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Chris Stephens, Rabbi Elli Sarah
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Government requires mandatory housebuilding targets
Early last week our Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) set out a piece in their magazine which is here and it begins with the headline Government to remove mandatory housebuilding targets and the first couple of sentences are UK … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged IET, Keir Starmer, Michael Fabricant, Oliver Dowden, Rishi Sunak
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How the Church is providing affordable housing
Last week earlier on the day that the Queen died one of the short debates that took place was between Caroline Ansell from Eastbourne who I have met in the past asked a question and Andrew Selous who is the … Continue reading
Posted in Church Teaching, Housing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Andrew Selous, Caroline Ansell
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A proper Home Insulation programme is needed
Last Tuesday in the House of Commons a debate under the title of Action on Climate Change and Decarbonisation took place and the first person who spoke was the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, Philip Dunne who is the Conservative … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Economics, Housing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Philip Dunne
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An important discussion about Ghost Homes
Yesterday in the House of Commons a series of conversations took place in the department of “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” and one of them was in Local Infrastructure. One of the people that took part was Tim Farron, the … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Roundtable Discussions, Stuart Andrew, Tim Farron
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Last week was a strange opening of the Parliament
It was very sad that Parliament opened up last week for the first time since 1963 without our Queen able to attend and read the statement provided by the Government. She was previously prevented from attending when she was pregnant … Continue reading
Bottomley discovers how incompetent Government is
On Wednesday Peter Bottomley asked a very significant question and the answer was very disturbing. The answer came from Kemi Badenoch and the question was headlined with the title “Local Government: Video Conferencing” and it was focused on the Department … Continue reading
Why does the Home Office not publish information?
Last Thursday the MP for Hove, Peter Kyle asked a very reasonable question which to be clear could be very useful in understanding how the current arrangements are working. However the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Future Borders … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Brighton & Hove, Charities, Community Safety, Housing, Immigration, Parliament and Democracy, Syria, Yemen, Youth Issues
Tagged Home Office, Kevin Foster, Peter Kyle, Priti Patel, YMCA
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