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...“The new NPPF introduces a greater number of measures for local authorities to be able to resist new housing development even when there is a clearly identifiable need,” he said....
...The chancellor’s decision to end a policy of letting local authorities keep 100 per cent of the revenues from sales of council homes was taken as part of the deliberations for his Budget on Wednesday....
...The department said it was “confident” it would “provide all £4.2bn of the HIF to local authorities across all regions of England, unlocking up to 270,000 homes....
...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....
...In London in 1981, a third of homes were for social rent, which now accounts for just 17 per cent nationally. Authorities could only meet real need by substantial building or acquisition of housing....
...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....
...A new 3-bed home can be built for less than £100,000 and most of England’s existing housing stock — poorly maintained, and energy-inefficient as it is — is worth far less....
...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....
...“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....
...landlords to add a unit of long-term housing for each unit let out on Airbnb....
...Levelling up secretary Michael Gove told the Times that local authorities would have three months to put in place plans to meet their housing needs....
...Waugh is a flag carrier for engineered timber in high-density housing....
...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”....
...Last year the government made concessions to anti-development backbench Tory MPs, including loosening rules around requiring local authorities to meet their local housing needs....
...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...
...The rent-a-room scheme helps increase the supply of low-cost accommodation for renters, particularly for students and other young people, willing to lodge in someone else’s home....
...“We are sleepwalking into a disaster as far as local authority finances are concerned,” said Zoe Billingham, director of the Institute of Public Policy Research North....
...Once again, the question of what to do about UK housing is batted back in the politicians’ court....
...“Families who host on Airbnb will benefit from clear rules that support their activity, and local authorities will get access to the information they need to assess and manage housing impacts and keep communities...
...The Autumn Statement also included an additional £450mn of funding for local authorities towards the building of 2,400 homes, including new temporary accommodation and housing for Afghan refugees....
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