Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities supports communities across the UK to thrive, making them great places to live and work.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP
  Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Minister for Intergovernmental Relations
• Rachel Maclean MP
  Minister of State (Housing and Planning)
• Felicity Buchan MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Housing and Homelessness)
• Dehenna Davison MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Levelling Up)
• Lee Rowley MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Local Government and Building Safety)
• Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Faith and Communities, and Lords Minister)

Petitions linked to this department

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• Restrict lawful development on agricultural land in greenbelt areas
  Open from Friday 12th May 2023 to Sunday 12th November 2023
  1,736 signatures

• Introduce stricter regulations and inspections for new build homes
  Open from Tuesday 9th May 2023 to Thursday 9th November 2023
  192 signatures

• Take action to support increased access to food for homeless people
  Open from Friday 5th May 2023 to Sunday 5th November 2023
  58 signatures

• Review availability of affordable housing and take action to improve this
  Open from Thursday 4th May 2023 to Saturday 4th November 2023
  65 signatures

• Increase devolution for Cornwall to match Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  Open from Thursday 4th May 2023 to Saturday 4th November 2023
  84 signatures

• Stop landlords refusing potential tenants because they claim benefits
  Open from Wednesday 3rd May 2023 to Friday 3rd November 2023
  58 signatures

• Nationalise private rental properties
  Open from Friday 28th April 2023 to Saturday 28th October 2023
  60 signatures

• Give self-build homes for smallholding purposes permitted development rights
  Open from Thursday 27th April 2023 to Friday 27th October 2023
  63 signatures

• Require all public toilets to be single occupancy and gender neutral
  Open from Friday 14th April 2023 to Saturday 14th October 2023
  52 signatures

• Exclude telecommunication installations from permitted development legislation
  Open from Thursday 6th April 2023 to Friday 6th October 2023
  7,864 signatures

• Require multi-storey car parks be fully enclosed
  Open from Tuesday 4th April 2023 to Wednesday 4th October 2023
  614 signatures

• Ban Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in residential areas
  Open from Tuesday 4th April 2023 to Wednesday 4th October 2023
  1,874 signatures

• Require planning permission for hotels to be used as hostels for asylum seekers
  Open from Tuesday 4th April 2023 to Wednesday 4th October 2023
  92 signatures

• Create a Legal Duty of Care to End Homelessness
  Open from Wednesday 29th March 2023 to Friday 29th September 2023
  114 signatures

• New environmental requirements in law for new buildings to reduce emissions
  Open from Tuesday 28th March 2023 to Thursday 28th September 2023
  177 signatures

• Increase the minimum penalties for those found guilty of fly tipping
  Open from Monday 27th March 2023 to Wednesday 27th September 2023
  154 signatures

• Cap yearly rent increases for private tenants to average increase in pay
  Open from Monday 27th March 2023 to Wednesday 27th September 2023
  268 signatures

• Give residential freeholders a Right to Manage communal areas
  Open from Wednesday 22nd March 2023 to Friday 22nd September 2023
  126 signatures

• Ban Anti-Homeless Hostile Architecture
  Open from Wednesday 22nd March 2023 to Friday 22nd September 2023
  69 signatures

• Abolish Council Tax for State Pensioners
  Open from Wednesday 22nd March 2023 to Friday 22nd September 2023
  22,751 signatures

• Provide funding for specialist community centres targeting homeless youths
  Open from Tuesday 21st March 2023 to Thursday 21st September 2023
  143 signatures

• Require sanitary products be provided in all public restrooms
  Open from Tuesday 21st March 2023 to Thursday 21st September 2023
  89 signatures

• Provide funding for helplines for young people who are at risk of homelessness
  Open from Tuesday 21st March 2023 to Thursday 21st September 2023
  51 signatures

• Abolish powers to create Business Improvement Districts
  Open from Wednesday 15th March 2023 to Friday 15th September 2023
  11 signatures

• Give everyone within the M25 a vote for London Mayor and GLA member
  Open from Friday 10th March 2023 to Sunday 10th September 2023
  361 signatures

• Make agreements to purchase or sell a property legally binding
  Open from Monday 6th March 2023 to Wednesday 6th September 2023
  68 signatures

• Require public referendums on 15-minute town and city policies
  Open from Tuesday 28th February 2023 to Monday 28th August 2023
  18,792 signatures

• Require daily council tax discounts by councils that fail to maintain roads
  Open from Friday 24th February 2023 to Thursday 24th August 2023
  513 signatures

• Prevent council tax increases for 2023/24
  Open from Thursday 16th February 2023 to Wednesday 16th August 2023
  97 signatures

• Require larger changing tables for children with special needs in public toilets
  Open from Tuesday 14th February 2023 to Monday 14th August 2023
  48 signatures

• Do not permit any Council Tax increase of more than 5% without a referendum
  Open from Tuesday 14th February 2023 to Monday 14th August 2023
  17,690 signatures

• Introduce 'Right To Dark' law for home and business properties
  Open from Thursday 9th February 2023 to Wednesday 9th August 2023
  1,697 signatures

• Require background checks and references for shared student accommodation
  Open from Monday 6th February 2023 to Sunday 6th August 2023
  310 signatures

• A formal qualification needs to be required to legally work on a fire system.
  Open from Friday 3rd February 2023 to Thursday 3rd August 2023
  600 signatures

• Change the legislation in s.228(7) of the Highways Act 1980
  Open from Wednesday 1st February 2023 to Tuesday 1st August 2023
  177 signatures

• Require local authorities to offer a hot meal delivery service
  Open from Wednesday 1st February 2023 to Tuesday 1st August 2023
  878 signatures

• Ban the installation of digital billboards in outdoor public spaces
  Open from Monday 30th January 2023 to Sunday 30th July 2023
  115 signatures

• Hold a referendum on removing the London Assembly and London Mayor
  Open from Thursday 26th January 2023 to Wednesday 26th July 2023
  71,554 signatures

• Require 20% of sale price for new build homes be held for the snagging period
  Open from Monday 23rd January 2023 to Sunday 23rd July 2023
  227 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement for local authorities to provide public toilets
  Open from Thursday 19th January 2023 to Wednesday 19th July 2023
  1,090 signatures

• Ban loudspeaker/mechanical calls to prayer
  Open from Wednesday 18th January 2023 to Tuesday 18th July 2023
  1,998 signatures

• Increase support for homeless people
  Open from Monday 16th January 2023 to Sunday 16th July 2023
  45 signatures

• Require new buildings to have self-contained gender-neutral toilets
  Open from Monday 16th January 2023 to Sunday 16th July 2023
  88 signatures

• Change the regulations on mandatory trickle vents on windows and doors.
  Open from Friday 13th January 2023 to Thursday 13th July 2023
  660 signatures

• Impose stricter regulations on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)
  Open from Friday 13th January 2023 to Thursday 13th July 2023
  186 signatures

• Require landlords to supply references from past tenants
  Open from Thursday 12th January 2023 to Wednesday 12th July 2023
  74 signatures

• Require councils to treat all roads and paths during snowfalls
  Open from Wednesday 21st December 2022 to Wednesday 21st June 2023
  16 signatures

• Investigate Anti-Hindu propaganda & hatred attacks on Hindu Community
  Open from Wednesday 21st December 2022 to Wednesday 21st June 2023
  18,648 signatures

• Fund and Roll out the Right-To-Buy Extension for Housing Association tenants.
  Open from Wednesday 21st December 2022 to Wednesday 21st June 2023
  270 signatures

• Require Ice Safety Equipment as standard at all bodies of water.
  Open from Tuesday 20th December 2022 to Tuesday 20th June 2023
  168 signatures

• Stop the opening of the new coal mine in Cumbria
  Open from Wednesday 14th December 2022 to Wednesday 14th June 2023
  364 signatures

• Change 'right to acquire' house scheme date from March 31 1997 to March 31 1994
  Open from Monday 12th December 2022 to Monday 12th June 2023
  17 signatures

• Ban unfair ground rent clauses from leasehold agreements
  Open from Friday 2nd December 2022 to Friday 2nd June 2023
  99 signatures

• Ban landlords from refusing tenants because they have a pet
  Open from Wednesday 23rd November 2022 to Tuesday 23rd May 2023
  95 signatures

• Extend the Help to Buy equity loan practical completion deadline
  Open from Tuesday 22nd November 2022 to Monday 22nd May 2023
  765 signatures

• Provide funding for installation of solar PV on social housing
  Open from Monday 21st November 2022 to Sunday 21st May 2023
  31 signatures

• Extend length of occupancy required for business rates exemption to six months
  Open from Monday 21st November 2022 to Sunday 21st May 2023
  256 signatures

• Require public referendums on renaming streets, removing statues, etc
  Open from Wednesday 16th November 2022 to Tuesday 16th May 2023
  30 signatures

• Increase the maximum Disabled Facilities Grant (£30k) in line with inflation
  Open from Thursday 10th November 2022 to Wednesday 10th May 2023
  389 signatures

• Abolish the bedroom tax
  Open from Thursday 3rd November 2022 to Wednesday 3rd May 2023
  54 signatures

• Make 'no fault' evictions illegal now
  Open from Monday 31st October 2022 to Sunday 30th April 2023
  247 signatures

• Make swift bricks compulsory in new housing to help red-listed birds
  Open from Monday 31st October 2022 to Sunday 30th April 2023
  109,896 signatures

• Increase ‘thank you’ payments for Homes for Ukraine hosts
  Open from Tuesday 25th October 2022 to Tuesday 25th April 2023
  1,656 signatures

• Make bike storage pods a requirement for all new building developments
  Open from Monday 24th October 2022 to Monday 24th April 2023
  155 signatures

• Stop proposed investment zones
  Open from Friday 14th October 2022 to Friday 14th April 2023
  73 signatures

• Require all residential, public and business buildings have address visible
  Open from Thursday 13th October 2022 to Thursday 13th April 2023
  23 signatures

• Amend Housing Act 1988 so leaseholders cannot be treated as ASTs
  Open from Thursday 13th October 2022 to Thursday 13th April 2023
  377 signatures

• Ban the use of blue-rich lights for public lighting at night due to cancer risk
  Open from Tuesday 11th October 2022 to Tuesday 11th April 2023
  17 signatures

• Extend any cap on social housing rent increases to shared ownership properties
  Open from Tuesday 11th October 2022 to Tuesday 11th April 2023
  299 signatures

• Remove the need for planning permission for energy efficiency improvements
  Open from Tuesday 11th October 2022 to Tuesday 11th April 2023
  22 signatures

• Create financial penalties for property buyers who pull out of purchases
  Open from Monday 10th October 2022 to Monday 10th April 2023
  47 signatures

• Ban wood and garden waste burning.
  Open from Friday 7th October 2022 to Friday 7th April 2023
  61 signatures

• Set up a panel to support reviews into attacks on or deaths of social workers
  Open from Monday 3rd October 2022 to Monday 3rd April 2023
  2,736 signatures

• 'Rent freeze' in England for public and private rented properties
  Open from Thursday 22nd September 2022 to Wednesday 22nd March 2023
  174 signatures

• Extend any caps on social housing rent increases to park homes
  Open from Tuesday 6th September 2022 to Monday 20th March 2023
  377 signatures

• Establish a legal minimum size for bedrooms in rental properties
  Open from Monday 5th September 2022 to Sunday 19th March 2023
  22 signatures

• Exempt owners of homes that can't get EWS1 forms from 2nd home SDLT surcharge
  Open from Monday 5th September 2022 to Sunday 19th March 2023
  28 signatures

• Provide funding for suitable infrastructure for people living in vehicles
  Open from Monday 5th September 2022 to Sunday 19th March 2023
  502 signatures

• End rental bidding now
  Open from Wednesday 31st August 2022 to Tuesday 14th March 2023
  84 signatures

• Abolish the Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman
  Open from Thursday 25th August 2022 to Saturday 11th March 2023
  13 signatures

• Require local authorities provide interim accommodation to all homeless people

• Require local authorities provide interim accommodation to all homeless people
  Open from Thursday 25th August 2022 to Saturday 11th March 2023
  110 signatures

• Prohibit landlords from declining tenancy to renters because they have children
  Open from Wednesday 24th August 2022 to Friday 10th March 2023
  20 signatures

• Reverse implementation of Freeports unless approved by a public vote
  Open from Friday 19th August 2022 to Sunday 5th March 2023
  3,242 signatures

• Give businesses the right to opt out of Business Improvements District levies
  Open from Monday 1st August 2022 to Wednesday 15th February 2023
  414 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement that all new homes have solar energy installed.
  Open from Monday 25th July 2022 to Wednesday 8th February 2023
  117 signatures

• Require landlords respond to false fire alarms within 15 minutes
  Open from Friday 22nd July 2022 to Sunday 5th February 2023
  27 signatures

• Fund climate-ready updates to homes, businesses and infrastructure
  Open from Thursday 21st July 2022 to Saturday 4th February 2023
  38 signatures

• Mandatory SEND training for all local authority education staff
  Open from Wednesday 13th July 2022 to Friday 27th January 2023
  1,117 signatures

• Limit rent charges on new shared ownership properties to ground rent
  Open from Thursday 7th July 2022 to Saturday 21st January 2023
  136 signatures

• Increase funding for diagnosis and treatment of speech and language needs
  Open from Tuesday 5th July 2022 to Thursday 19th January 2023
  306 signatures

• Regulation of Property Agents - implement working party recommendations in full
  Open from Thursday 23rd June 2022 to Friday 6th January 2023
  2,566 signatures

• Increase stamp duty on all second home and buy-to-let purchases
  Open from Tuesday 21st June 2022 to Wednesday 4th January 2023
  46 signatures

• Create an Accessible and Inclusive Parks Fund
  Open from Friday 17th June 2022 to Saturday 31st December 2022
  217 signatures

• Prevent landlords giving notice to tenants who are pregnant or have an infant
  Open from Friday 17th June 2022 to Saturday 31st December 2022
  52 signatures

• Provide grants for removing asbestos from residential properties
  Open from Tuesday 14th June 2022 to Wednesday 28th December 2022
  49 signatures

• Increase protections for new home owners against snags and defects
  Open from Tuesday 14th June 2022 to Wednesday 28th December 2022
  213 signatures

• Provide ring-fenced funding for social housing designed for disabled people
  Open from Tuesday 14th June 2022 to Wednesday 28th December 2022
  44 signatures

• Enact the Grenfell Inquiry recommendation on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans
  Open from Wednesday 8th June 2022 to Thursday 22nd December 2022
  3,008 signatures

• Stop new planning applications for greenfield sites with 5 failed applications
  Open from Monday 6th June 2022 to Tuesday 20th December 2022
  826 signatures

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