Government pledges to meet its 1 million new homes plan

Government pledges to meet its 1 million new homes plan

10:06 AM, 24th July 2023, About 10 months ago 5

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The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has revealed that the Government will meet its manifesto pledge to build 1 million new homes in this Parliament.

Since 2010, the Government says that more than 2.2 million new homes have been built and millions of people have moved into home ownership.

The PM’s pledge comes ahead of a major speech by the Housing and Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove, when he will set out new measures to unblock the planning system and build homes where they need to be built.

It is believed that part of that commitment will see a block from Natural England being paused that is preventing new housing near 330 designated areas across the country from being built, as he revealed to the Telegraph over the weekend.

Mr Gove says the Government will build homes where they are needed and not ‘concrete over the countryside’ and will prioritise building homes in inner-city areas where demand is highest, and growth is being constrained.

‘We will meet our manifesto commitment to build 1 million homes’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: “I can confirm that we will meet our manifesto commitment to build 1 million homes over this Parliament.

“That’s a beautiful new home for a million individual families in every corner of our country.

“We need to keep going because we want more people to realise the dream of owning their own home.”

He added: “We won’t do that by concreting over the countryside – our plan is to build the right homes where there is the most need and where there is local support, in the heart of Britain’s great cities.

“Our reforms will help make that a reality, by regenerating disused brownfield land, streamlining planning process and helping homeowners to renovate and extend their houses outwards and upwards.”

‘We need to build more homes’

Mr Gove said: “Most people agree that we need to build more homes – the question is how we go about it.

“Rather than concreting over the countryside, we have set out a plan to build the right homes in the right places where there is community support – and we’re putting the resources behind it to help make this vision a reality.

“At the heart of this is making sure that we build beautiful and empower communities to have a say in the development in their area.”

‘Desperately need more homes to be built’

Goodlord’s director of insurance, Oli Sherlock, said: “If we want to ease the pressure on the rental sector, we desperately need more homes to be built.

“However, we need targets and pledges to translate into bricks and mortar.”

He added: “We’ve neglected our housing market for far too long – now is the time for pragmatic action, not more talk.”


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Whiteskifreak Surrey

10:59 AM, 24th July 2023, About 10 months ago

We have heard the before.
No danger of that happening any time soon.

john thompson

11:15 AM, 24th July 2023, About 10 months ago

Well it's a simple matter of math's Mr politician. Keep letting in millions of illegal immigrants, every hard luck story refugee, scumbags, terrorists and cheap labour from every corner of the globe for yourselves, businesses and the elite, and a million new homes every couple of years still won't make a dent. Get real, you morons...not that you give a toss.

Paul Essex

16:57 PM, 24th July 2023, About 10 months ago

'Beautiful new home', in or over a disused shop? I cannot imagine him wanting one of them

Reluctant Landlord

16:59 PM, 24th July 2023, About 10 months ago

build 1 million new homes?

Great idea.

Rely on current not fit for purpose planning system and councils to implement this?

Abject failure.

Status quo remains.

Ian Simpson

7:23 AM, 29th July 2023, About 9 months ago

HAving only achieved 200,000 new homes a year roughly in the past few years, how on earth are they going to do a million homes in this parliament...? There's only about nine months or so left until Labour take over... SO that's about 110,000 new houses a month until then. LOL , it will never happen, and as John says above, a million new people are let in every year, most in demographic groups which won't be buying anyway, and mainly cannot even afford to rent either... We probably need a million new tents a year to house the un-houseable....!

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