Starter Home Delivery Doubt

Developers have cast doubt on ministerial hopes of seeing 200,000 ‘starter homes’ available in England by the end of the decade as the legislation underpinning the initiative made it onto the statute book. The British Property Federation welcomed this but pointed out that the secondary legislation for the starter homes regime had yet to be finalised and published. “The longer the government takes to iron out the details of this policy, the more that target slips into the distance. Spades are not likely to be in the ground until 2017 at the earliest, and time is certainly running out” commented Melanie Leech, BPF chief executive. Read more on the Planning Portal website.