Search Results for: 1.5 million new homes
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Housing Market
Angela Rayner threatened to quit over ‘impossible’ 1.5m homes pledge
Despite the Government’s claims to the contrary, Rayner believed at one point that Labour’s housebuilding target was never going to be achieved.
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Housing Market
Spring Statement: Chancellor claims Government ‘within touching distance’ of homes target
Rachel Reeves told MPs Labour is set to build 1.3 million new homes in the next few years at a rate of 305,000 every 12 months.
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Land & New Homes
Developers say hitting Labour’s 1.5m new homes target ‘easy’
Nearly two-thirds of developers surveyed by lender are ‘confident’ the UK can meet the Government’s ambitious housebuilding target.
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Regulation & Law
PLANNING: Labour to speed up councils’ approval for newbuilds
Government to radically overhaul planning to boost house building and make approval times under two-and-a-half years not average SEVEN.
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Regulation & Law
CLAIM: 1.5 million landlords selling up would be ‘a good thing’
The Big Issue magazine says that if landlords sold up it would mean there were more homes for people to buy.
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Land & New Homes
Big opportunity for agents as Labour reveals 100 new town bids
In a potential sales bonanza for estate agents, the Government has announced major new towns plans.
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Land & New Homes
‘House builders buoyed by Labour’s 1.5m homes promise’
Housebuilders have doubled their activities in the land market over the last 12 months says Head of Development Land at Knight Frank, Charlie Hart.
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Land & New Homes
PLANNING: ‘Forget bats and newts’, Reeves tells house builders
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she was "genuinely shocked" at how slow the planning process for new build homes was.
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Land & New Homes
Big builder launches ‘model home’ to trial new technology
The house will provide a test bed for innovative new materials and techniques and enable the developer to be at the forefront of construction innovation.
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Regulation & Law
Half a million council tenants to lose Right to Buy their homes
The Government is to effectively end the Right to Buy scheme by substantially tightening the eligibility criteria.
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