Government Unveils £6m Garden Towns And Villages Top Up Funding

A total of £6m will be allocated to help new locally-led garden towns and villages progress plans to deliver up to 200,000 new homes. An additional £1.9m will be given to councils in England to support new neighbourhood plans, which government says will allow “communities to get involved and have their say on the types of homes that are built and where.” The funding “builds on the government’s commitment to giving communities a voice on the development in their areas, including prioritising local brownfield land while protecting the green belt,” MHCLG has said. Read more on Housing Today.

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Autumn Budget Update - Housing

·         100% council tax premium on empty properties.

·         Stamp duty abolished for first-time buyers for homes worth up to £300,000

·         £28m in three new housing pilot schemes – in the West Midlands, Manchester and Liverpool – to halve rough-sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it by 2027.

·         £44bn of capital funding to help build 300,000 homes annually by mid-2020s.

·         New money for home builders fund.

·         £630m ‘small sites fund’.

·         £8bn of financial guarantees to support private housebuilding.

·         £2.7bn housing infrastructure fund.

·         £1.1bn for new urban regeneration.

·         £34m to train construction workers.

·         A review to be chaired by Oliver Letwin to look at ways to speed up planning permission.

·         Five new garden towns.

·         One million new homes on the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor by 2050.

Read more on the Guardian website.