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...Community-led housing (CLH) is one string to our bow. This is driven by independently proven local need. In my part of Suffolk, we have delivered 18 homes for local people....
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...The way to make housing targets palatable to communities is to give them a say in the design and location of new housing....
...Local authorities received a revenue grant, reducing as rents rose. Housing associations received a capital grant, recovered out of 100 per cent of inflationary surpluses....
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...safeguards are needed,” said a spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities....
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...The Competition and Markets Authority said that historically the 300,000 target had only been met when councils were providing a “significant supply” of new housing....
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...“The housing market has continued with its perennial issue of inelastic supply. There are far too few houses being built, and the number has been falling as local authorities have cut back.”...
...“Each local authority or council has got the option of whether they want new homes or not,” he said. “I don’t see any improvement until there is a change of government . . ....
...But those depressed by the state of the UK housing market will be even less so....
...Housing associations completed 40,000 homes across the UK in the year to March, while local authorities built 4,000, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics....
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...new housing.”...
...Gove said housing targets based on calculations of local needs would “remain the basis” of the system but confirmed these would be “advisory”....
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...But even that gives great powers to cabinet ministers in a hurry — such as deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner, who has reforms she wishes to make to housing, planning and employment rights that would take...
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