Search Results for: 1.5 million new homes
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Land & New Homes
PM repeats new homes pledge but admits it’s ‘too ambitious’
Keir Starmer says his Government still plans to deliver 1.5 million homes, but agrees the doubters are right.
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Land & New Homes
Labour’s homes plan ‘doomed’ without retired planning officers says Savills
Head of Planning at Savills warns Housing Secretary Angela Rayner that 300 extra planning officers is nowhere near enough to cope with 1.5 million new homes within five years under Labour's target.
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Regulation & Law
Pennycook fails to convince MPs he can build 1.5m new homes
Housing Minister has been grilled by Committee over how Labour is going to hit its ambitious new homes target.
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SHOCK: Only half of 1.5m new homes under Labour ‘for private sale’
New figures show that only around 50% of the homes planned by the Labour Government will go on the open housing market.
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Land & New Homes
Estate agents to have ‘more new homes to sell during 2025’
RICS members are optimistic about increased housebuilding next year despite ongoing financial constraints, and the opportunities that presents.
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Labour reveals £68m for 5,000 homes on brownfield sites
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the Government is "on the side of builders" as it pledges £68 million for homes on disused city sites.
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Land & New Homes
New Towns will ‘not help Labour achieve 1.5 million target’ – claim
Existing New Towns only made a small contribution to post-war housebuilding, according to thinktank analysis and may not make much difference to Rayner's housebuilding plans.
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Regulation & Law
‘New homes quality must be policed properly’ warns ombudsman
Jodi Berg OBE, Chair of The New Homes Ombudsman is calling for more powers to protect buyers from poor quality housing and says too few SME builders have joined the optional scheme.
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Housing Market
Labour pushes housing target up to nearly two million
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told MPs the Government aimed to build 370,000 homes each year through reform of the planning system and mandatory local targets.
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Land & New Homes
Big estate agency urges Labour to build homes on Green Belt
Carter Jonas says not all the 1.5 million homes the Government hopes to build should be on this kind of land, but says some should be released for property development.
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