Housing Minister Grant Shapps has confirmed that the Coalition has identified surplus public land with enough capacity for over 80,000 new homes. And he said the administration was on track to release enough land for 100,000 homes by 2015. He also revealed that the CLG was working with another six Government departments and with other large organisations including the BBC, Network Rail and the Royal Mail to identify further disused land. The Ministry of Justice, HM Treasury, the Home Office, the Department for Energy and Climate Change, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are now looking at their land holdings. News of this progress has come as the department announced a cash boost of nearly £1bn for communities keen to kick start growth and improve their local areas. Read more on the Planning Portal website.
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