Chelgate Local and Bidwells welcome you to attend our housing breakfast briefing on garden towns and villages, with a focus on north Essex, Harlow and Gilston. The session will discuss what garden towns and villages are in terms of planning and development …

  The Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, is understood to be pushing for major planning reforms which would free up some Green Belt land for housing. While hoping for that might be unrealistic we might expect some bold news. Hammond is under …

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Chelgate Local as an Account Executive. Do you have what it takes to join our growing team? Chelgate Local is part of Chelgate Ltd, an independent, international strategic PR agency headquartered in London. …

Slough in green belt land grab Slough Council has announced an audacious bid to meet its housing numbers by proposing a new settlement of 10,000 homes in South Bucks District Council. Needless to say, South Bucks has opposed the plan. …

    Last week saw Homes for Reading, a new ‘socially responsible housing company’ welcome its first tenants. The company is the latest in a line of wholly owned council businesses. The intention behind Homes for Reading is to establish …

Slough Council has announced an audacious bid to meet its housing numbers by proposing a new settlement of 10,000 homes in South Bucks District Council. Needless to say, South Bucks has opposed the plan. Like a number of other urban …

Against a backdrop of a downbeat party, an opposition riding high in the polls, Boris, and a nasty cough, this was never going to be an easy speech for Theresa May. And it wasn’t. In the run up to the …

A boost for housing The Department for Communities and Local Government has attempted a bold new step in addressing our housing crisis. A new formula to calculate housing targets means that 150 local authorities across the UK have seen their …