A shake-up of the planning system to pave the way for 1.5 million new homes to be built over the next five years has been set out by the government.
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner said mandatory housing targets for England, which were scrapped by the previous Conservative government in December, would be restored.
And she said the annual target would be increased from 300,000 homes to just over 370,000.
However, the target for London would be lowered from the previous 100,000 to about 80,000 – which she said the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is “determined to rise to”.
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Ms Rayner announced the government is changing the method used to calculate how many houses are needed in an area “so we better reflect the urgency of supply for local areas”.
And the rules will require 50% of new housing to be affordable “with a focus on social rent”.
Some £450m of the local authority housing fund will go to councils to provide 2,000 new homes, Ms Rayner said.
She said the plan was “radical” and would be controversial but the housing crisis is “urgent”.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook will meet major developers on Tuesday “to ensure that they commit to matching our pace of reform”, she said.
More than 30 home builders signed a statement supporting the reintroduction of mandatory housing targets and releasing of “grey belt” land.
Shadow housing secretary Kemi Badenoch accused Ms Rayner of giving the go-ahead to build “1.5 million ugly homes” in England as part of the new planning reforms.
She said the new government wants to drop the requirement for new homes to be “beautiful”, but Ms Rayner said that is subjective, difficult to define and leads to inconsistent decision-making on applications.
