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Published yesterday, the draft bill sets out Labour’s intention to unshackle the North’s towns and cities. While it has been widely welcomed, leaders across the North are wary of the ‘distraction’ local government reorganisation could cause.

The developer has become the latest organisation to join Place North’s growing delegation and will sponsor an intimate breakfast panel discussion at next year’s edition of the global property expo.

Billed as the ‘biggest transfer of power out of Westminster this century’, the white paper sets out how the government plans to put the destiny of England’s regions in their own hands. 

Mayors will be handed a suite of new powers to allow more decisions on planning, housing, and transport to be made locally, while district councils are to be scrapped as part of deputy prime minister Angela Rayner’s plan to allow towns and cities outside London to “take back control”.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has outlined the route to 100% clean electricity generation by the end of the decade – the North stands ready to benefit from the strategy.

Despite delays to the promised government reforms on planning, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has outlined ambitions to bring back regional spatial strategies. Plus: rent controls and Manchester offices.

For a second consecutive year, the prolific regeneration company has teamed up with Place North to support and showcase its growing pipeline of transformational projects across the patch.

More than 20,000 new homes could be built off the back of the investment, which aims to make it easier for SME developers to access credit.