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The right to roam … but you have to trespass to get there. England’s countryside rules are truly absurd

It is a scandal that 2,500 beauty spots are designated as places to walk and enjoy, but no one can legally reach them except the landowners, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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AirBnB-style short-term lets to require planning permission under new plan to ease housing crisis

The rules would not to apply to people renting out their main home for 90 days or less in a year

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OPINION - Britain has stopped building beautiful and the carbuncle known as the South Bank Slab is a new London low

The curious thing about the development known as The Slab, which is to replace the unprepossessing ITV block on the South Bank, is that no one other than the developers has a good word to say for it. Yet Michael Gove approved it last week. The Mayor supported Lambeth council’s…

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Inter Faith Network headed for closure as Gove ‘minded to withdraw’ funding

Row over religious cohesion charity’s appointment of trustee with links to Muslim Council of Britain

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We must unlock a build-to-rent revolution in London to help house our young people

Planning reform is urgently needed before Michael Gove’s stark warning about the threat to democracy comes true

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Comment: 'Building on the green belt is a political grenade. Gove should have pulled the pin'

Gove’s consultation for building on brownfield and more office-to-resi conversions will barely scratch the surface of the housing crisis

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'An insult': Sadiq Khan under fire over 2.8% progress on latest affordable housing programme

A spokeswoman for the mayor promised that the programme’s delivery would ‘ramp up’ over the coming months

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Oxford Street clash between M&S and Michael Gove reaches the High Court

Flagship store planning dispute could end in the departure of one of the famous shopping street’s biggest names

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Sunak reveals plan to boost brownfield homebuilding in England

Measures would include making it easier to get planning permission to build on derelict sites in urban areas

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Michael Gove says no-fault evictions will be banned this year

UK housing minister promises section 21 evictions in England will have ended by time of general election

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Gove says Sunak was right to attack Labour U-turns after trans jibe criticism

The PM’s comment, made while the mother of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was in Parliament, sparked a backlash.

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Local authority leaders criticise Sunak’s call for ‘restrained’ council tax rises

Prime minister’s comments ‘remarkable’ given government cuts to town hall funding in England, say LGA bosses

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Kemi Badenoch says death threats intensified after Nadine Dorries book

Business secretary says conspiracy theory about ‘plotters’ dangerous in hands of violent, unbalanced people

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Rishi Sunak criticises local authorities for requesting steep council tax rises

Criticism comes as councils struggle to cope with shortfalls that have left several on brink of bankruptcy

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Expensive and loathed, ‘the Slab’ will be a terrible monument. It’s being called Gove Towers and he deserves it

The London megabuilding given the go-ahead this week is a giant symbol of profit over community, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Home Office drops plan to remove housing protections from asylum seekers

Draft policy to remove HMO regulations for landlords in England and Wales withdrawn hours before high court challenge

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Michael Gove approves £700m South Bank office development on former ITV site

Mitsubishi Estate London bought the site from ITV in 2019 for £145.6 million

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Michael Gove approves ‘derided’ £400m development on London’s South Bank

Office complex nicknamed the Slab given go-ahead despite fierce opposition from green and modernist architecture campaigners

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Birmingham given go-ahead to raise council tax by up to 10%

Michael Gove approves exceptional rise for UK’s biggest local authority after it declared itself effectively bankrupt last year

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Local councils must unite and fight for civic pride

Letter: Michael Gove encouraging councils to sell off assets is a low point in this government’s history of disregard for local authorities, writes Michael Meadowcroft

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Michael Gove lobbied by Covid VIP lane’s biggest winner of PPE contracts

Exclusive: then Cabinet Office minister had phone call with Unispace, which weeks later got the first of £680m worth of deals

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Wednesday briefing: England’s councils are going bust – why, and who is to blame?

In today’s newsletter: A Guardian series examines the causes and effects of councils going broke

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Teesworks review criticises freeport project’s secrecy and value for money

Government-backed scheme overseen by Tory mayor cleared of cronyism and corruption, but transparency found wanting

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Kemi Badenoch is member of ‘Evil Plotters’ Tory WhatsApp group

Exclusive: Business secretary who has told party rebels to stop ‘stirring’ and back PM is in group along with Michael Gove

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The Guardian view on councils in crisis: local democracy is being betrayed

Editorial: Empty promises to empower local communities are belied by cuts on the ground, at a time of spiralling costs and growing challenges

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