Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced mandatory housing targets and an end to the onshore wind ban to get “Britain building again”.
The UK’s first ever female chancellor said Labour will create a new taskforce “to accelerate stalled housing sites in our country”.
She promised her government would build 1.5 million homes over the next five years, as pledged in Labour’s election manifesto.
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“We’re not in the business of reneging on our manifesto commitments,” she said in her first speech as chancellor after Labour won the general election last Thursday.
“We’ve received that strong mandate. We’re going to deliver on that mandate.”
Ms Reeves announced the government will:
• Restore mandatory housebuilding targets
• Build 1.5m homes by the end of this parliament – including affordable and council homes
• End the onshore wind farm ban
• Create a new task force to accelerate stalled housing sites
• Support local authorities with 300 additional planning officers across the country
• Review planning applications previously turned down that could help the economy
• Prioritise brownfield and greybelt land for development to meet housing targets when needed
• Reform the planning system to “deliver the infrastructure that our country needs”
• Set out new policy intentions for critical infrastructure in the coming months.
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