Moe Forouzan, Team Manager – Business and Innovation at Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, has been elected to the Board of the Institute of Economic Development (IED), the UK’s leading professional body for economic development and regeneration …

Watch more of our videos on Shots!  and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now The business arm of the city council is selling off a 22-acre countryside site for a new housing development to be built. Milton Keynes Development Partnership is …

The Telford Land Deal, which was agreed in 2015, has resulted in the sale of 32 commercial sites and delivered employment floor space of over 1.7 million square feet – creating 2,200 new jobs. There have also been 24 sites for residential development sold, …

The influential former chief executive of Sheffield City Council, ex-head of the Homes and Communities Agency, and cross-bench peer died on Saturday (1 July), after a short battle with cancer. A man with ‘many hats’, as he was once introduced to a …

Rossendale Borough Council is set for an update on a controversial east Lancashire empty homes regeneration scheme which has already cost the taxpayer almost £8million. The Empty Homes Scheme was launched back in 2012 to get houses repaired and back into …

Household names such as Siemens, United Utilities and Electricity North West are among the North West companies to have made top new hires in recent days. Businesses from across the region have announced new additions to their teams and a string of …

Plans to build more than 260 new homes on a derelict former Walsall copper works site blighted by fly-tipping have moved a step closer. St Francis Group and Homes & Communities Agency is looking to build the properties on the old Elkington Works and …

MEMBERS of Otley Rugby Union Football Club have voted by an overwhelming majority to leave their historic Cross Green home. The plan is for the 153-year-old club to relocate to land on the east of the proposed East of Otley relief road, which is due to …

Cannock Chase Council has granted permission for the reserved matters for 116 homes at the former Parker Hannifin Plc, in Walkmill Lane. The houses will be built by developer Galliford Try on land in the same area of Cannock as a 111-home development which …

The money for the Matrix Housing Partnership will see 2,257 new homes in the Black Country and across the wider Midlands. It is part of the first wave of strategic partnerships agreed between the Government's Homes England agency to ramp up the …