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  • Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act – Consultation

    Topic of this consultation: This consultation seeks views on the implementation of measures in the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023. It focuses on the detail of a licensing regime and National Supported Housing Standards and includes content on Housing Benefit. Scope of this consultation: The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act, which secured Royal Assent on 29 June 2023, gives the Secretary of State powers to introduce a licensing regime for... More
    Closed 15 May 2025

  • Construction Products Reform Green Paper

    The tragedy at Grenfell Tower and the two subsequent independent reviews, conducted by Dame Judith Hackitt and Paul Morrell and Anneliese Day, exposed significant failures in the construction products regulatory system, revealing institutional failures that allowed profit to come before safety. Despite the significant reforms initiated in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government is clear that critical gaps persist in the construction products regulatory framework. This... More
    Closed 21 May 2025

  • Local authority funding reform - Resetting the business rates retention system

    This technical consultation seeks views on the approach to delivering a business rates reset, updating government’s assessment of how much business rates are available through updating business rates baselines. The consultation can be found at: Local authority funding reform – Resetting the business rates retention system - GOV.UK It follows on from information set out in the December 2024 consultation on Local authority funding reform: objectives and principles ... More
    Closed 2 June 2025

  • Homes for Ukraine eligible minors survey

    About this survey This survey will help us understand how you currently use Foundry to manage your eligible minor cases on the Homes for Ukraine scheme. Overview This survey will take around 5 minutes to complete. You can save and return to the survey at any point. Your data We will store your data in a secure database on Citizen Space, the platform hosting this survey, for 2 years or less. Your data will be controlled by the user researchers in MHCLG's Homes... More
    Closed 4 July 2025

  • Planning Reform Working Paper: Speeding Up Build Out

    The government is committed to getting Britain building again. This paper forms part of a series of working papers on different aspects of planning and housing market reform, designed to inform further policy development in collaboration with the wider sector. It proposes options to incentivise a faster rate of build out and poses questions on how this could be achieved. Enquiries For any enquiries about this working paper please contact: buildout@communitiesgov.uk... More
    Closed 7 July 2025

  • Technical consultation on implementing measures to improve Build Out transparency

    This technical consultation sets out the rationale for implementing the new statutory build out information requirements and the power to decline to determine applications, including setting out the importance of build out and the government’s plan to improve build out transparency. It then goes into details of how the provisions are proposed to be applied, seeking specific views on : The type of development these build out measures will apply to... More
    Closed 7 July 2025

  • Planning Reform Working Paper: Reforming Site Thresholds

    The government is committed to getting Britain building again. This paper forms part of a series of working papers on different aspects of planning reform, designed to inform further policy development in collaboration with the wider sector. It proposes options for reforming site thresholds within the planning system. This would introduce a gradated approach, with 3 separate thresholds: minor, medium and major. The paper explores how different site sizes should be treated within... More
    Closed 9 July 2025

  • Reform of planning committees: technical consultation

    Further to the introduction of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this consultation seeks views on proposals to modernise planning committees, including the national delegation of planning functions, the size and composition of planning committees and mandatory training for members of planning committees. Please read the consultation document for more detail on the proposals before you share your views with us. ... More
    Closed 23 July 2025

  • Homes for Ukraine data migration survey

    About this survey This survey will help us understand any problems with our test data migration from Foundry to Share Homes for Ukraine. It will ask you to feed back on any data which you think is completely missing, and separately about any data which you think is incorrect. If you encounter any problems with the functionality, you can also feed back on this at the end of the survey. Please let us know the action you took, what you saw, what you expected to see and what... More
    Closed 1 August 2025

  • Consultation on Proposals for Local Government Reorganisation in Surrey

    This statutory consultation seeks views on the proposals that the Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution, Jim McMahon MP OBE, has received following the Secretary of State’s invitation to councils in Surrey to submit proposals for unitary local government. You can find full details of the consultation, including a privacy statement, at: surrey-local-government-reorganisation The 2 proposals in this consultation were made by the following councils on 9... More
    Closed 5 August 2025

  • Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales - Access and Fairness

    Ministerial foreword This government cares about the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). We care about the impact it can have at scale, unleashing growth and supporting critical investment in the UK. We also care about the personal experience of the millions of individual members that make up the scheme, members who have often given their whole working lives to public service. As someone who has worked in local government, alongside so many of those members, I care personally about... More
    Closed 7 August 2025

  • Homes for Ukraine system change survey

    Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. About this survey This survey is to give us insight into your thoughts and questions about the transition from Foundry to the new Share Homes for Ukraine data system. For any technical issues, please access Jira and select the option for testing. You can save and return to the survey at any point. You can submit more than one response if needed. Your data We will store your data in a secure database on... More
    Closed 11 August 2025

  • Fair Funding Review 2.0

    This consultation seeks views on the approach to determining new funding allocations for local authorities, and fire and rescue authorities, building on the local authority funding reform: objectives and principles consultation which the government has provided a summary to in parallel. This consultation covers the government's proposed approach to: determining local authority funding allocations; consolidating... More
    Closed 15 August 2025

  • Consultation on how to implement Social Rent convergence

    Topic of this consultation: This consultation seeks views on how to implement Social Rent convergence, as part of the government’s 10 year rent settlement for social housing. This follows the broader consultation on future social housing rent policy that the government carried out between October and December 2024. Scope of this consultation: Following the previous consultation, the government announced (as part of the Spending Review) that there will... More
    Closes 27 August 2025

  • Building Control Independent Panel call for evidence

    This call for evidence is being issued following the publication of the Building Control Independent Panel's Terms of Reference and 'problem statement' at Building Control Independent Panel (BCIP) – Terms of Reference - GOV.UK , and Problem statement for the Building Control Independent Panel - GOV.UK It is open from the 29 July to 29 August and the evidence collected will be used to inform the panel's report to Government later in the year. More
    Closes 29 August 2025

  • Private Parking Code of Practice Consultation

    Welcome The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is setting out its proposals for raising standards across the private parking industry before preparing a new Government Code of Practice and a compliance framework for parking operators More
    Closes 5 September 2025

  • Improving the Energy Efficiency of Socially Rented Homes in England

    This consultation seeks views on the implementation of new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) for the social rented sector at Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C or equivalent by 2030. It covers the following areas: Setting a Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard Addressing Implementation Issues Longer-term Decarbonisation and Net Zero There are 33 questions in total. Most questions are open to all respondents, but some are... More
    Closes 10 September 2025

  • A Reformed Decent Homes Standard for Social and Privately Rented Homes Consultation

    The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is seeking feedback on the reforms to the Decent Homes Standard (DHS) proposed in this consultation. Notably, the reformed DHS will now apply to both social and privately rented homes in England. This consultation invites views on potential changes to the DHS, its implementation, and timelines. These proposals should be considered alongside the consultation on minimum energy efficiency standards for the social housing sector,... More
    Closes 10 September 2025

  • Modernising and improving the administration of council tax

    Topic of the consultation: This consultation seeks views on modernising the administration of council tax, including improving how council tax is billed and how payments are collected and enforced. Scope of the consultation: This consultation is focused on the administration of council tax and will not seek views on fundamental reform of the council tax system. It sets out the government’s proposals to make changes... More
    Closes 12 September 2025

  • Consultation: Changing the way government allocates Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funding to local authorities in England

    This government recognises how important home adaptations are in enabling disabled people to live as independently as possible in a safe and suitable environment. We have concluded a review of the way we allocate Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funding to local authorities in England to ensure funding for the grant is better aligned with local needs. We are now consulting on a new approach and welcome responses from local authorities across the country as well as organisations and... More
    Closes 16 September 2025

  • Social Housing Tenant Service Charges

    The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (‘the Act’) introduces a range of measures to improve home ownership for millions of leaseholders in England and Wales, including increasing the transparency of fixed and variable service charges. On 4 July 2025, the government published a consultation seeking views on how to implement these new requirements through secondary legislation. This consultation also sought views on possible further reform, and Section 3.4 asks a... More
    Closes 24 September 2025

  • Cryfhau amddiffyniadau i lesddeiliaid dros ffioedd, taliadau a gwasanaethau: ymgynghoriad

    Cwmpas yr ymgynghoriad hwn Pwnc yr ymgynghoriad hwn Mae Deddf Diwygio Cyfraith Lesddaliad a Rhydd-ddaliad 2024 ("Deddf 2024") yn cyflwyno cyfres o ddiwygiadau i wella perchentyaeth i filiynau o lesddeiliaid yng Nghymru a Lloegr. Mae'n cynnwys mesurau i wella hawliau lesddeiliaid presennol a’u helpu i ddwyn eu landlordiaid i gyfrif yn well trwy gynyddu tryloywder taliadau gwasanaeth a pholisïau yswiriant adeiladau, yn ogystal â thrwy fynd i'r... More
    Closes 26 September 2025

  • Strengthening leaseholder protections over fees, charges and services: consultation

    Scope of this consultation Topic of this consultation The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (“the 2024 Act”) introduces a range of reforms to improve home ownership for millions of leaseholders in England and Wales. It includes measures to improve the rights of existing leaseholders and help them better hold their landlords to account by increasing transparency of service charges and building insurance policies, as well as by tackling... More
    Closes 26 September 2025

  • Low-interest Loans - Registered Provider Survey

    The Spending Review sets out that there will be £2.5 billion in low-interest loans to support new social and affordable housing development, to complement commercial lending. Loans will be provided at interest rates materially lower than the rates available on the market. Our plan for a decade of renewal in social and affordable housing confirmed that providers will be able to combine the loans with grant from the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, guaranteed lending from the... More

  • Voter registration- Theory of Change pre-workshop survey

    We are holding 2 online Theory of Change workshops on the 4 th and 16 th of September. For context, a Theory of Change is a logic model used to help understand how a new policy, programme or process will translate planned activities to desired outcomes. Within the workshops we will discuss the leading ideas on how to improve registration. These are briefly described below: Integrated registration using “Once”/Change of Address Service (via GDS): This option looks... More

  • LRO to allow applications for absent voting for devolved elections in Scotland and Wales to be made online

    Topic of this consultation: This consultation paper is issued on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and sets out the proposal to pass legislation to insert regulation making powers making it possible for applications for postal and proxy voting (also known as ‘absent voting’) arrangements for Senedd, Scottish Parliamentary, and local elections in Scotland and Wales to be made... More

  • Consultation: Request for planning permission - Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford

    Topic of this consultation: This consultation invites comments (representations) on a request from Universal Destinations & Experiences to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (“MHCLG”) seeking planning permission for an Entertainment Resort Complex and associated development at the former Brickworks and adjoining land, Kempston Hardwick, Bedford (“the Proposal”). The Proposal is accompanied by a statement referred to as an... More

  • Grenfell Communications Spanish

    Visión general El Ministerio de Vivienda, Comunidades y Gobierno Local ( Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government ( MHCLG)) es el ministerio que lidera la gestión de la tragedia de la Torre Grenfell. Nosotros: Lideramos la gestión del gobierno relativa a la investigación sobre la Torre Grenfell y trabajamos para mejorar la seguridad en edificios, la seguridad contra incendios y una reforma más amplia. Somos... More

  • Grenfell Communications

    The Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG) is the Government department leading the response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy. We: Lead the Government’s response to Grenfell Tower Inquiry, and work to improve building safety, fire safety and wider reform. Are responsible for sharing information and updates, and having a two-way dialogue, with everyone affected by the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Support the... More

  • Grenfell Communications Amharic

    ማጠቃለያ የቤቶች፣ ማህበረሰቦችና የአካባቢው አስተዳደር ሚኒስቴር (Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG)) ለግሬንፌል ታወር (Grenfell Tower) አሳዛኝ ሁኔታ ምላሽ የሚመራ የመንግስት መምሪያ ነው። እኛ፦ ለግሬንፌል ታወር ጥያቄን እና የሕንፃ ደህንነትን፣ የእሳት ... More
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