US EditionUnfinished housing sites may be taken off developers under new rules
- The UK government introduced new rules allowing local councils to take unfinished housing sites from developers who delay building, aiming to accelerate home delivery.
- The rules require developers to commit to build timeframes before planning permission and submit annual progress reports to councils to ensure accountability.
- The government warned that housebuilders who obtain land solely for speculative trading could be subject to substantial fines for each home that remains unconstructed, as a measure to prevent development delays.
- Housing charity Shelter praised the plans but urged investment of 90,000 social rent homes annually for 10 years, noting 1.3 million households wait for social housing as homelessness rises.
- These measures aim to deliver promised new homes faster, reduce the housing emergency, and increase affordable housing, although critics warn the problem may worsen without broader policy changes.
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Rayner bets the house on tackling land-banking. Alas, it is a discredited conspiracy theory
Labour’s latest planning reforms seem likely to upset just about everyone. On the one hand, they’re taking power away from councillors when it comes to the smallest proposals for new homes; on the other, they’re giving councils the power to seize land from developers which don’t build “on time”. Sadly, the latter is likely to be far more important, and it is an absurdly lazy proposal aimed at tackling ‘land banking’, a discredited conspiracy the…
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