*Increasing investment in the private rented sector – [Government]
will be investing £200 million in housing sites to ensure that the high-quality
rented homes that are needed are available to institutional investors quickly. [A]
taskforce [will] bring together developers, management bodies and institutional
investors to broker deals and deliver more rented homes.
*Affordable Housing Guarantees and tackling empty homes - We
will be extending the use of guarantees to cover borrowing needed to deliver
more affordable homes. We also intend to
… bring an additional 5,000 existing empty homes back into use. In total we
will invest another £300 million.
*Accelerating large housing schemes - Government will work in
partnership with local authorities, scheme promoters and communities to
accelerate delivery of locally-supported, major housing sites.
*Getting surplus public sector land back into use - Government
will accelerate the release of surplus public sector land by strengthening the
role of HCA outside London
through a targeted programme of transfers from other Government Departments and
agencies. We will also work to accelerate disposals by preparing the land for
market and providing a single 'shop window' for all surplus public sector land
*Reducing planning delays - We propose to legislate to allow
applications to be decided by the Planning Inspectorate, if the local authority
has a track record of consistently poor performance in the speed or quality of
its decisions. We will be working with the Local Government Association to
increase the use of Planning Performance Agreements for major schemes - which
commit both applicants and planning authorities to a clear timetable for
determining proposals.
*Reducing the cumulative burden of red tape - It is vital
that the affordable housing element of Section 106 agreements negotiated during
different economic conditions is not allowed to undermine the viability of
sites and prevent any construction of new housing. The Government will now
introduce legislation…which will allow any developer of sites which are
unviable because of the number of affordable homes, to appeal with immediate
effect. The Planning Inspectorate will be instructed to assess how many
affordable homes would need to be removed from the Section 106 agreement for
the site to be viable in current economic conditions.
*Getting empty offices into use - We will introduce permitted
development rights to enable change of use from commercial to residential
purposes.
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