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High streets bid to become a Portas Pilot

Monday, 6 February 2012
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Struggling towns and cities across England are being given the chance become 'Portas Pilots' local government minister Grant Shapps has announced.

£1bn cash boost for pro-growth communities

Wednesday, 1 February 2012
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Communities with ambitions for economic growth have today been rewarded with a cash boost of nearly £1billion to get their projects off the ground and improve their local areas.

Call for councils to help older people live at home for longer

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps and Communities Minister Andrew Stunell have called on councils to use every opportunity under the New Deal for Older People to give elderly people more choice and control over where they live, so they are not pressured to sell their home or move into residential care.

Regeneration powers to remain with communities

Friday, 13 January 2012
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Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has insisted that communities will be kept firmly in the driving seat and able to determine the future of their local areas.

Councils to get freedom to stop people playing the social housing system

Thursday, 5 January 2012
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps has said new allocations guidance published today for consultation will release councils and housing associations from the shackles of the current tick-box approach for allocating social homes.

Next phase of local public audit

Wednesday, 4 January 2012
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Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has today published the next steps on the road to a more efficient and accountable local audit system that will replace the Audit Commission's centralised inspection regime.

Minister pledges to abolish 'digital apartheid'

Thursday, 8 December 2011
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps has pledged to end a 'digital apartheid' that has meant many social tenants in England are unable to get online.

£430m for councils that have built new homes

Thursday, 1 December 2011
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced that the second year of cash payments through the New Homes Bonus will total over £430 million, more than double the first year's payment, with the funding to be shared by 353 councils who helped deliver nearly 159,000 homes last year - either new homes or empty properties brought back into use - and from a second round of payments for homes built the year before.

Shapps announces funding to tackle ‘ghost streets’

Friday, 25 November 2011
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced funding of more than £71million to help families trapped in half-empty and abandoned streets.

New flexible tenancies for social housing

Thursday, 24 November 2011
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New flexible tenancies will help end long-held prejudices about social housing and ensure it once again becomes a springboard for success, Housing Minister Grant Shapps said today.

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