Angela Rayner accuses Conservatives of neglecting housebuilding

Angela Rayner accuses Conservatives of neglecting housebuilding

0:03 AM, 8th November 2023, About A year ago 18

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Labour has promised “to achieve more on housing in six months than the Tories have in six years”.

Shadow Housing Secretary Angela Rayner vowed a Labour government would abolish no-fault evictions and support house building.

In her commitment to addressing the housing crisis, Ms Rayner said “Labour is the only party serious about housing”.

No time to wait

Angela Rayner said: “Labour will deliver more action on housing in six months than this crumbling Conservative government has managed in six years.

“This is no time to wait. Labour’s plan would get Britain building again with a housing recovery plan, creating a generation of new towns and unlocking economic growth across Britain.

“We will not duck the difficult issues as the Tories have. We would abolish no-fault evictions and fix the broken leasehold system once and for all.”

Ms Rayner did not hold back and accused the Prime Minister of failing to support housebuilding.

She added: “Rishi Sunak is too weak to take on the blockers of growth in his party and deliver the change our country needs. He is failing to support housebuilding and putting the dream of a safe, secure and affordable home further away.

“Labour is the only party serious about boosting the supply of new homes to buy and rent.”

Labour party are playing short-term political games

Conservative Housing Minister Rachel McClean hit back at Ms Rayner and criticised Labour’s response to the housing crisis.

Ms McClean pointed out that Labour peers opposed a government effort to eliminate European Union-era regulations that require developers to address the environmental impact of new homes on river health.

She said: “We will take no lessons from the hypocritical Labour Party who only a few weeks ago voted to block 100,000 new homes.

“The same old Labour Party are playing short-term political games – backing the blockers, not the builders.

“We have already delivered 2.3 million homes since 2010 and we are on track to build one million homes this parliament – only the Conservatives are taking the long-term decisions needed to deliver a brighter future.”


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Jeff L

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9:50 AM, 8th November 2023, About A year ago

The reality is that no government in the last 60 years has kept pace with the need for more housing, that is the root cause of all the housing issues now - all the rest is just politics and window-dressing.

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10:53 AM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

Good luck on that one Angela. You clearly have no idea of the process and complexities plus inherent delays involved in delivering housing, even assuming you have the land availability, funding, developer commitment, availability of skilled trades etc. all coming together.

I know, I’ve tried - including whilst consulting to a public sector authority as landowner and planning authority, in partnership with Housing Associations (with public funding available). In theory, many of the principal hurdles were overcome - but still some schemes took years to achieve, and some not at all.

With the odds stacked against most planned development these days, there’s not a cat’s chance Labour will achieve anything in six months - unless of course they plan on annihilating the planning system, property rights etc.

Pity the poor voter that believes this nonsense.

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11:16 AM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

With Brexit where would all the trades people come from to build these new homes?

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11:23 AM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

Property118 please stop writing 'no-fault evictions'. They are 'no-recorded fault evictions'

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11:32 AM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

Reply to the comment left by John Hampton at 08/11/2023 - 11:16
Lets not use the Brexit excuse again. This has not stopped the flow of economic migrants. Just the Poles have started going home as Poland is booming after getting over Eur 400 billion from the EU after joining.

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11:38 AM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

The housing market is booming. They can't build quick enough to cash in on all the big profits to be made. Hundreds of build to rent going up but it takes time for planning and approvals to work through the system with inefficient local authorities understaffed and over spending on the wrong things - just look at Birmingham and Bournemouth. I see notices daily of hundred is not thousands of homes being built.
https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2023/11/07/vistry-strikes-deal-to-build-nearly-3000-rental-homes/
Just one of many daily.

It's just not reported and we end up listening to the ignorant politics of he said, we said, you said.

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11:43 AM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

Reply to the comment left by JB at 08/11/2023 - 11:23
That ship has already sailed. The term has been adopted in Court documents and by the whole world apart from landlords who insist on continuing to fight a battle that has already been lost. Banging our heads against this brick wall will have the usual result - nothing but a worse headache than is caused by all the other issues that we have to contend with.

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12:00 PM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Bryan at 08/11/2023 - 11:32
Economic migrants are not builders, the Poles were, and yes they have gone home. They were also very good tenants. So who could build these houses?

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12:49 PM, 8th November 2023, About 12 months ago

England - Houses built by sector 1946 - 2022

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