Housing and planning
– UKIP will protect the Green Belt.*
– Planning rules in the NPPF will be changed to make it easier to build on brownfield sites instead of greenfield sites.* Central government is to list the nationally available brownfield sites for development and issue low-interest bonds to enable decontamination.
– Houses on brownfield sites will be exempt from Stamp Duty on first sale and VAT relaxed for redevelopment of brownfield sites.
– Planning Permission for large-scale developments can be overturned by a*referendum triggered by the signatures of 5% of the District or Borough electors collected within three months.
So they will essentially do zip to ease the housing crisis except allow people to live in contaminated areas?
Planning can be halted with a petition from 5% of the current residents, is this to be called the 'not on my doorstep' directive?
Where are their plans to build affordable housing?
Where are their plans to aid local authorities to bring their current housing stock up to the decent homes standard?
Where are their promises to not allow overseas investors to buy housing association properties and oust whole communities?