Search Results for: 1.5 million new homes
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Land & New Homes
Homes target only ‘a dent’ in total needed, housing secretary admits
Angela Rayner, who is Housing Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, told MPs that 1.5 million new houses in five years will not be enough to deal with the housing supply crisis.
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Land & New Homes
Mayors to be ‘front and centre’ of plans to build 1.5 million homes
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said elected Mayors would be given powers similar to those held by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
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Labour faces revolt over 1.5 million homes plan
A Labour council leader warned PM Keir Starmer the targets for new building were "impossible and unrealistic".
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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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