CSR 2010 preview: Other key funding streams

In the final installment of our series of blogs examining the likely fate of regeneration funds and programmes in the looming spending review, we take a look at a group of initiatives and funding pots including the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative, Housing PFI and the Community Infrastructure Fund.

Housing sector braced for huge cuts in spending review

Housing minister Grant Shapps is reported to have told delegates at the Conservative Party conference earlier this month that the housing sector needed to “prepare for the worst” in the 20 October Comprehensive Spending Review. He said: “The spending review is going to be tough. I mean really tough.” If press reports over the weekend are to be believed, Shapps was not exaggerating.

CSR 2010 preview: Property and Regeneration Fund

In the run-up to the Comprehensive Spending Review on Wednesday we are examining the likely fate of regeneration funds and programmes. Today we look at the Homes & Communities Agency’s Property and Regeneration Fund.

CSR 2010 preview: Working Neighbourhoods Fund

In the run-up to next week’s Comprehensive Spending Review we are examining the likely fate of regeneration funds and programmes. Today, we look at the Working Neighbourhoods Fund.

CSR 2010 preview: Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders

The Comprehensive Spending Review – due on 20 October – is now just a week away.

In a series of blog posts this week, we are examining the likely fate regeneration funds and programmes. Today we look at the prospects for the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders.

CSR 2010 preview: National Affordable Housing Programme

The Comprehensive Spending Review – due on 20 October – is nearly upon us.

In a series of blog posts starting this week, we will examine the likely fate regeneration funds and programmes, starting today with the National Affordable Housing Programme.

Updated: interactive regeneration cuts timeline

Our interactive timeline tracking the cuts to regeneration funding implemented by the new coalition government since May has now been updated. To use the timeline, visit our blog, here.

Five things we learned about cuts this week

As the October Comprehensive Spending Review draws nearer, the clamour over public spending cuts grows louder. This week, with the TUC conference in full swing, the news cycle has been dominated by cuts stories, as the mainstream media tries to get to grips with what the cuts might mean. Here are five things we’ve learned this week about cuts.

Councils slice Working Neighbourhoods Fund cash

Local authorities have cut millions more from their Working Neighbourhoods Fund budgets than advised by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Labour hits out at ‘£734m’ Big Society cuts

An ‘audit’ by the Labour Party, reported in today’s Guardian, shows that the coalition Government is cutting £734 million from voluntary projects. Labour is using the figures to highlight what it claims is the “vacuous promise” of a “Big Society”.