Labour to Fund £4.8bn 'Help To Buy for Builders' to Help Deliver 1.5m New Homes

Labour to fund £4.8bn 'Help To Buy for builders' to help deliver 1.5m new homes

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Planning reforms ‘critical’ to 1.5m homes pledge delivery clear Commons

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook said the Bill will help to tackle the UK’s housing crisis.

New plan aims to unblock house building holdups and take back control of planning - Banbury FM

Cherwell is 5,017 houses short of the government target despite having 8,000 waiting to be built A new Housing Delivery Action Plan has been approved for the Cherwell District, to speed-up the delivery of new homes being built and to try to regain control of the planning process locally. Currently there are 8,000 houses where planning permission has been granted, but where construction hasn’t yet started. Because of this these houses don’t count…

Housing delivery will fall to just 840,000 homes over five years - Savills | Today's Conveyancer

A forecast from Savills suggests only 840,000 new homes will be completed in the next five years – well below the government’s target of 1.5 million. According to a recent report by the real estate adviser, planning reforms will lead to an increase in the supply of consented land ‘but this will take time to feed through into higher completions’. Low demand for new homes presents a further barrier to growth, the company says, ‘as developers will …