Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Labour Unveils Home Building Scheme

Labour has unveiled a package of measures designed to help boost home construction by small building firms and give more young people the chance of getting on to the housing ladder. The party's housing spokeswoman Emma Reynolds said Labour would introduce a Help to Build scheme to allow small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to access lower-cost bank lending backed by Treasury guarantees, as well as fast-track planning for small sites of fewer than 10 homes and a requirement for councils to include a higher proportion of smaller sites for housing in their five-year plans. Read more on Yahoo News.

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