Measures to Help Labour Reach 200,000 Homes a Year Target

Emma Reynolds has announced a package of proposed measures to help smaller house builders and custom build play a role in Labour’s promise to deliver 200,000 homes a year by 2020. In a speech to the National House Building Council, the shadow housing minister announced Build First - measures which she said will be implemented if Labour win the next election. The measures announced included:

·         A Labour government will require local authorities to include a higher proportion of small sites in their five year land supply.

·         It would give guaranteed access to public land to smaller firms and custom builders.

·         It will ensure that any public land given over for house building will have a proportion dedicated for this purpose.

·         A proportion of the homes built in new towns and garden cities will be built by smaller firms and custom builders.

·         It will increase transparency in the land market by ensuring that developers register the land they own or have options on.

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