Sophie Metcalfe
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Five key changes set out in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
What is the potential impact of the government's planning bill?
Policy making for left-behind groups: School readiness
How can government start closing the opportunity gap in early years education?
The government’s welcome planning reforms alone won’t deliver Starmer’s ‘building boom’
The government's planning reforms are bold and ambitious.
Wind and solar power: How to turn manifesto promises into tangible results
What can the government learn from the coalition's development of the UK’s offshore wind sector?
More support would make the Sheffield Policy Campus success truly transformative
Sheffield can be a "test and learn pioneer" at the heart of the government's plans to rewire the civil service.
Can Labour’s housing ambitions survive contact with reality? Lessons from party conferences
The government is showing appropriate ambition and leadership on housing, but faces huge challenges if it is to deliver.
Seven things we learned from the Labour Party Conference 2024
From policy announcements to political positioning, the Labour conference in Liverpool was followed closely by the IfG team.
The Liberal Democrats will judge the government on what its new homes deliver
Ed Davey's party used its conference in Brighton to set out its stall on housebuilding.
10 things the government should do to deliver on its housebuilding ambitions
England needs to build a minimum 300,000 new homes each year to tackle its housing shortage. But no government has got close to that 300,000 figure.
How the government can build more homes
Why successive governments have found it difficult to deliver on housebuilding pledges.