Government Announces Plans to Raise Housing Standards

Government plans will make it easier and cheaper to build homes to a high standard, according to Communities Minister Stephen Williams. Currently, house builders face a myriad of different standards to implement each time they build new homes in an area - with the standards imposed varying between areas, and often leading to duplication and even contradiction. Publishing the government’s response to its housing standards review, the minister said the move would remove this confusion from the system. The measures will reduce 100 standards to fewer than 10; bringing down the numbers of remaining pages of guidance from 1,000 to fewer than 100, saving councils and developers both time and money. Read more on the Gov UK website.