Labour is progressing plans to take “land profiteering”
out of the housing market with a new agency specifically set up to let councils
and developers buy sites cheaply from private owners to boost low-cost homes.
Through a change in law, the proposed Sovereign Land Trust (SLT) – unveiled by
shadow housing secretary John Healey last year – would buy agricultural land at
“near current-use value” rather than the inflated prices it sells for when
earmarked for development. The new trust would have the potential to purchase
non-green belt land on the edge of cities and parcel it out for development to
councils and housing associations. Read more on 24housing.
Reform UK council chair resigns after ‘illegally renting out unsafe
properties’
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Council said Edward Harris’s properties ‘failed to meet even most basic of
living standards and legal requirements’
A Reform UK council chair has resigne...
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