A safe, secure home is the foundation of opportunity, but too many people are being priced out of the communities where they want to live and work.
By unlocking homes around well-connected transport hubs, we're tackling the housing crisis - helping people live closer to work,
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. MP for Ashton-under-Lyne.
- Tomorrow we’ll be updating planning rules to give stronger protection for pubs. We’re drawing a line so developers have to prove there’s genuinely no way to save a pub before they can even think about knocking it down. Building the homes we desperately need shouldn’t come at
- It is awful to see the devastation the fires across the West Midlands, and the country, have caused. It must have been terrifying for residents to see the fires take hold so quickly yesterday. I am very grateful to the firefighters, local resilience partners and all the first
- We are working closely with the local Fire and Rescue Service and partners on the ground in Stourbridge and are being regularly updated. I would like to thank the brave emergency services, and my thoughts are with people who have been forced to leave their homes.
- For too long, Westminster has stood by while our high streets fell into decline. That ends now. We’re giving local people and councils more control over what opens on their high street - and tougher powers to crack down on businesses that aren’t good for our communities.

