Third of Public Land for Homes Allocated

The government has allocated a third of the expected public land for housing, a year after the scheme was launched.  Figures from the CLG show land for 33,000 homes has already been sold off to developers, although the department could not say how many hectares this was, or what the land was worth. DEFRA has released the most land - enough for 9,160 homes. The Ministry of Defence has sold land for 8,200 homes. The scheme to free up public land for housing was announced by then housing minister Grant Shapps in June 2011. He said the government would identify land for around 100,000 homes by 2015. Read more on Inside Housing.