Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is central to the mission-driven government, from fixing the foundations of an affordable home to handing power back to communities and rebuilding local governments. MHCLG is a ministerial department, supported by 19 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-local-government

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
  Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Luke Hall MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government)
• The Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
• Eddie Hughes MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Rough Sleeping & Housing)
• Lord Stephen Greenhalgh
  Minister of State (Minister for Building Safety and Communities)

Petitions linked to this department

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• Require providers of temporary accommodation to allow pets
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  47 signatures

• Set an ambitious target for building more apartments
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  19 signatures

• Ban service charges on houses
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  35 signatures

• Establish a bank holiday on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  3,566 signatures

• Require candidates for MP to be registered to vote and residents of the UK
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  5,802 signatures

• Require candidates for MP to be registered to vote and residents of the UK

• Create a new national agency specifically dealing with anti-social behaviour
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  35 signatures

• Improve regulations of holiday rental properties
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  71 signatures

• Make it legal responsibility for homeowners to maintain property exteriors
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  25 signatures

• Cap the cost of council fines at 100% of the original charge
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  28 signatures

• Require existing homes to meet new electrical regulations
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  15 signatures

• Make hedgehog highways mandatory on all new fencing.
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  770 signatures

• Define Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) & launch an inquiry into APR
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  5,017 signatures

• Require local authorities to appoint a park homes officer
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  46 signatures

• Do not abolish the requirement for voter ID when voting
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  60 signatures

• Immediately ban charities issuing s 21 notices, and revoke those issued
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  36 signatures

• Stop all non-British citizens from voting in elections
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  594 signatures

• Review regulations imposed on tenants in temporary accommodation
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  89 signatures

• Create English regional assemblies (regional governments)
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  18 signatures

• Make mortgage lenders consider rent as proof of affordability
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  73 signatures

• Apply the same energy efficiency legislation to all property - not just rentals
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  979 signatures

• Ban the Nazi salute, like in Germany, and Austria
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  734 signatures

• Referendum on abolishing the Greater London Assembly & Mayor of London position
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  94 signatures

• Grant Cornwall nation status
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  24,006 signatures

• Create a law to recall local councils the public has lost faith in
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  46 signatures

• Require general elections at least every 3 years instead of 5
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  113 signatures

• Stop funding for interfaith initiatives
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  25 signatures

• Decide on any change to the commission payable on the sale of a Park Home
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  5,644 signatures

• Increase funding so councils can employ more lollipop people outside schools
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  27 signatures

• Keep the requirement for voter ID when voting and limit postal voting
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  74 signatures

• Developers should make new medium to large housing estates fully adoptable.
  Open from Thursday 6th March 2025 to Saturday 6th September 2025
  69 signatures

• We want a referendum on 7 changes to our voting system
  Open from Thursday 6th March 2025 to Saturday 6th September 2025
  57 signatures

• Require councils to give everyone a month off of paying council tax
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  412 signatures

• Require councils to be responsible for stray cats
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  54 signatures

• Repeal the Occupiers Liability Act 1984
  Open from Tuesday 4th March 2025 to Thursday 4th September 2025
  50 signatures

• Require councils to keep streetlights on during the hours of darkness
  Open from Friday 28th February 2025 to Thursday 28th August 2025
  87 signatures

• New housing developments to be primary residences to minimise environmental harm
  Open from Friday 28th February 2025 to Thursday 28th August 2025
  269 signatures

• Replace First Past the Post (FPTP) with the Alternative Vote (AV)
  Open from Wednesday 26th February 2025 to Tuesday 26th August 2025
  96 signatures

• Do not postpone the local elections
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  791 signatures

• Option for local referendums on hyperlocal tier of councils for all of England
  Open from Monday 24th February 2025 to Sunday 24th August 2025
  30 signatures

• Require all social housing providers to sound insulate all managed buildings.
  Open from Thursday 20th February 2025 to Wednesday 20th August 2025
  44 signatures

• Keep Local Government LOCAL. Stop plans for county scale unitary authorities.
  Open from Thursday 20th February 2025 to Wednesday 20th August 2025
  135 signatures

• Introduce conveyancing laws similar to those in Scotland, across England & Wales
  Open from Thursday 20th February 2025 to Wednesday 20th August 2025
  94 signatures

• Require Property Management agents to disclose all Service Charge Accounts
  Open from Wednesday 19th February 2025 to Tuesday 19th August 2025
  42 signatures

• Review the affordability of the rental market
  Open from Tuesday 18th February 2025 to Monday 18th August 2025
  47 signatures

• Require local referenda when introducing new unitary and strategic authorities
  Open from Tuesday 18th February 2025 to Monday 18th August 2025
  107 signatures

• Require local elections to be held annually
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  62 signatures

• Introduce stricter requirements for infrastructure before building houses
  Open from Friday 14th February 2025 to Thursday 14th August 2025
  112 signatures

• Remove non-qualifying status for leasehold flats
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  1,225 signatures

• Limit the number of terms an elected mayor can serve
  Open from Wednesday 12th February 2025 to Tuesday 12th August 2025
  73 signatures

• Reduce the home building targets to 200,000 houses per year.
  Open from Wednesday 12th February 2025 to Tuesday 12th August 2025
  3,383 signatures

• Ban councils from offering 100% council tax reduction
  Open from Wednesday 5th February 2025 to Tuesday 5th August 2025
  39 signatures

• Ban all developments in high wildlife areas
  Open from Monday 3rd February 2025 to Sunday 3rd August 2025
  238 signatures

• Legislate that bin collections cannot be more than two weeks apart.
  Open from Wednesday 29th January 2025 to Tuesday 29th July 2025
  417 signatures

• Ensure Disabled Residents Can Access Their Own Homes
  Open from Wednesday 29th January 2025 to Tuesday 29th July 2025
  568 signatures

• Keep current payment for hosting under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme
  Open from Tuesday 28th January 2025 to Monday 28th July 2025
  43 signatures

• Fund Emergency Shelter to anyone Homeless during all named storms.
  Open from Monday 27th January 2025 to Sunday 27th July 2025
  2,350 signatures

• Mandate the installation of solar panels on all new buildings
  Open from Monday 27th January 2025 to Sunday 27th July 2025
  230 signatures

• Create a statutory property information service with house buying information
  Open from Thursday 23rd January 2025 to Wednesday 23rd July 2025
  27 signatures

• Tighten the rules on political donations
  Open from Wednesday 22nd January 2025 to Tuesday 22nd July 2025
  144,783 signatures

• Review the case for building 90,000 social rent homes across England
  Open from Tuesday 21st January 2025 to Monday 21st July 2025
  127 signatures

• We Want Affordable Housing for All.
  Open from Friday 17th January 2025 to Thursday 17th July 2025
  157 signatures

• Abolish council tax banding. Everyone should pay the same
  Open from Wednesday 8th January 2025 to Tuesday 8th July 2025
  58 signatures

• Abolish leasehold ownership
  Open from Friday 27th December 2024 to Friday 27th June 2025
  460 signatures

• Require signage that barns or stables are 1/2 a mile ahead
  Open from Tuesday 24th December 2024 to Tuesday 24th June 2025
  32 signatures

• Repeal the vagrancy act of 1824 & introduce “leave no trace laws”
  Open from Tuesday 24th December 2024 to Tuesday 24th June 2025
  139 signatures

• Save Our High Streets Fairness for Small Businesses protect tenants from (PDRs)
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  98 signatures

• Require rent increases to be based on inflation and salaries, freeze for 3 years
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  53 signatures

• Change building regulations to enhance sustainability
  Open from Thursday 19th December 2024 to Thursday 19th June 2025
  98 signatures

• Create a new body to regulate landlord and freeholder service charges
  Open from Thursday 19th December 2024 to Thursday 19th June 2025
  12,125 signatures

• Review the enforcement policy guidance for LAs to protect mobile home owners.
  Open from Wednesday 18th December 2024 to Wednesday 18th June 2025
  1,634 signatures

• Stop the permitted development right to extend upwards
  Open from Tuesday 17th December 2024 to Tuesday 17th June 2025
  55 signatures

• RAAC Homeowners Justice: National Fund, Legislative Reform & Public Inquiry Now!
  Open from Tuesday 17th December 2024 to Tuesday 17th June 2025
  7,649 signatures

• Allow local authorities to use council tax to fund local NHS services
  Open from Monday 16th December 2024 to Monday 16th June 2025
  21 signatures

• Ban wind farm onshore asset development on green belt land
  Open from Thursday 12th December 2024 to Thursday 12th June 2025
  5,289 signatures

• Extend Right to Buy to Housing Association Residents.
  Open from Monday 9th December 2024 to Monday 9th June 2025
  93 signatures

• Change the house purchasing process to protect sellers
  Open from Thursday 5th December 2024 to Thursday 5th June 2025
  52 signatures

• Extend the Freedom of Information Act to Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)
  Open from Thursday 28th November 2024 to Wednesday 28th May 2025
  46 signatures

• Remove priority need requirements from homelessness legislation.
  Open from Monday 25th November 2024 to Sunday 25th May 2025
  209 signatures

• Establishment of Minimum Standards for Student Housing
  Open from Thursday 21st November 2024 to Wednesday 21st May 2025
  102 signatures

• Referendum on changing the Electoral System To Proportional Representation (PR)
  Open from Wednesday 6th November 2024 to Tuesday 6th May 2025
  42,329 signatures

• New planning regulations on all new houses - climate conscious energy supply.

• Increase penalties for illegal evictions

• Require letters from local authorities about fines/debts be sent "signed for"

• Require letters from local authorities about fines/debts be sent "signed for"
  Open from Thursday 6th May 2021 to Saturday 6th November 2021
  44 signatures

• Have a mandatory two-week gap between exchange and completion of house sales
  Open from Tuesday 4th May 2021 to Thursday 4th November 2021
  380 signatures

• Cap monthly Council Tax payments to no more than 8% of net income
  Open from Thursday 29th April 2021 to Friday 29th October 2021
  56 signatures

• Ban social housing evictions if it’s a result of a low or zero income
  Open from Wednesday 28th April 2021 to Thursday 28th October 2021
  25 signatures

• Introduce a Covid safety rating inspection for all public places
  Open from Tuesday 27th April 2021 to Wednesday 27th October 2021
  20 signatures

• Ensure home buyers have better consumer protection instead of buyer beware rule
  Open from Tuesday 27th April 2021 to Wednesday 27th October 2021
  26 signatures

• Increase funding for mental health care for those at risk of homelessness
  Open from Monday 26th April 2021 to Tuesday 26th October 2021
  13 signatures

• Make it easier for people to build low impact housing
  Open from Friday 23rd April 2021 to Saturday 23rd October 2021
  109 signatures

• Make repairing or replacing a damaged boundary fence a legal requirement
  Open from Wednesday 21st April 2021 to Thursday 21st October 2021
  46 signatures

• Reduced Council Tax for private estate properties
  Open from Wednesday 21st April 2021 to Thursday 21st October 2021
  618 signatures

• Require all newly built homes to be Carbon Neutral by 2030
  Open from Friday 16th April 2021 to Saturday 16th October 2021
  45 signatures

• Remove the £11.00 charge that family have to pay per death certificate!
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  58 signatures

• Create council tax exemptions and railway discounts for part-time students
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  53 signatures

• Provide dedicated funding for Mental Health day centres
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  73 signatures

• Require Planning Permission for laying of Astroturf Lawns / Artificial Grass
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  12,703 signatures

• Prevent Social Housing landlords increasing rent this financial year
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  17 signatures

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