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Originally Posted by arista

[The new towns initiative,
part of Labour’s plans to build 1.5m new homes
in their first term,
comes after years in which England
has built too few houses to meet demand,
but the government is still likely
to face fierce opposition.]



[Up to 12 new towns will be under construction
by the next election after 100 potential locations
in England were identified as part of Keir Starmer’s
promise to deliver the largest
housebuilding program since
the postwar era.

Each new town will have the potential
for at least 10,000 homes with accompanying
infrastructure, as the government promised
to sweep away red tape and overcome
environmental objections to get them built.

Starmer admitted being inspired
by a visit to a housing development
in Cornwall with King Charles on Monday,
saying he was struck by the quality
of the buildings and how it was impossible to
tell which were social homes.]


https://www.theguardian.com/society/...n-says-starmer



[Prime Minister Keir Starmer said:

“For far too long, working people graft hard
but are denied the security of owning
their own home.
I know how important it is - our pebble dash
semi meant everything to our family
growing up.
But with a generation of young people
whose dream of homeownership feels
like a distant reality, and record levels
of homelessness,
there’s no shying away from the
housing crisis we have inherited."

“We owe it to those working families
to take urgent action, and that is
what this government is doing.
Our Plan for Change will put builders
not blockers first,
overhaul the broken planning system
and put roofs over the heads of
working families and drive the growth
that will put more money in
people’s pockets."]



https://www.gov.uk/government/news/p...lion-new-homes

This is badly needed.
The government will find problems though getting through the planning obstacles.

Absolutely however, it's a good plan although very ambitious.
It may prove to be too ambitious.
However it will be interesting to see where this has progressed to over the next 4+ years.

This is the kind of policies I hoped to be seeing from them and therefore easily support it.
It will be more than the Cons managed in their 14 year governing period.
I think however to be fair to the Cons, they got bogged down a lot because of planning obstacles.

So yeah, this is a much better announcement.
No doubt the ever destructive Reform gang though will try to keep dividing the Nation blaming those from other Countries and cultures via their own prejudices for the problem of housing in the first place.
Awful divisive lot IN MY VIEW.
I've no time at all for them.

Rather than support overall the plan and this government's hopeful intention of dealing with the obstructive opposition and planning set up there is at present.
Let's see too, what the Greens say too.