communities and local government Articles

An angry response to what seemed to me to be a well-intentioned, albeit somewhat clumsy, government letter to mosques was blamed over the weekend on a failure to engage with Muslim communities. Eric Pickles, the secretary of state for communities and local government,...

Earlier this week I celebrated the announcement that the Lambeth Early Action Partnership has been awarded a £38m grant from the Big Lottery Fund, as one of just five areas across the country to win this funding. This is fantastic news for us, and is guaranteed to...

Roland Watson caused a minor stir last week by suggesting in the Times that David Miliband will soon return to the Labour frontbench. Few Progress members will be disappointed to hear this. But, as the article went on to ask, where in the cabinet to put such a big...

Liberal Democrat Don Foster, the communities minister, recently announced: ‘I want to see a simpler set of housing standards that people can easily understand and that free up developers and councils to get on with the job of building the high quality new homes we so...