Labour's Plans for Building New Homes

Speaking at the start of his party's annual conference in Manchester, Ed Miliband said that an incoming Labour government would introduce New Homes Corporations (NHCs) in an effort to boost housebuilding to 200,000 homes a year by 2020. The NHCs would work with private companies and housing associations in local authority areas already earmarked for development. Labour believes that, left unchecked, our national shortage of homes will become acute, hitting two million by 2020. Mr Miliband also pledged to tackle the problem of 'land banking' by extending local authorities' powers to withdraw planning permission from uncooperative developers. Read more on the Coalition Watch blog.