King Charles, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Keir Starmer has promised a housing blitz that could see up to 12 new towns built across England.
The Prime Minister said each new town will have the potential for 10,000 or more homes as he vowed to sweep away red tape and overcome environmental objections.
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A separate project to push ahead with stalled housing projects has already unblocked 20,000 homes, Sir Keir said.
The Prime Minister said he had taken inspiration from King Charles to build “beautiful communities” that will benefit hundreds of thousands of people.
He claimed there are enough construction workers already in the UK despite concerns of a shortfall.
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Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner visiting a housing development (Image: PA)
The Prime Minister’s push for new towns comes after Sir Keir and his deputy Angela Rayner joined the King for a tour of the Nansledan development on Monday.
The move raised concerns about dragging the King into politics, coming just days before Thursday’s announcement about plans to create “beautiful communities” with affordable homes, much-needed infrastructure, GP surgeries and schools.
The plan has seen more than 100 proposals from across England submitted for consideration as part of the next generation of new towns.
Sir Keir said home ownership remained a “distant dream”, resulting in a “disconnect between working hard and getting on”.
“This is about more than just bricks and mortar. It’s about the security and stability that owning your own home bring,” he said.
“I know what this means for working people – the roof above our head was everything for our family growing up.”
Asked about whether he had been inspired by the King’s development in Cornwall, Sir Keir told reporters inside No 10: “I’m really interested in that and that is why I wanted to go and see it. I was struck by the quality of the build, the variety and particularly struck by the fact you couldn’t tell which was social housing.”
The Government has pledged to deliver 1.5 million new homes by the time of the next general election.
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Highlighting the Government’s “new homes accelerator” project, which aims to overcome problems holding up housing projects, Sir Keir said: “We’ve already made progress in just seven months, unblocking 20,000 stuck homes. But there’s more to do.
“We’re urgently using all levers available to build the homes we need so more families can get on the housing ladder.
“We’re sweeping aside the blockers to get houses built, no longer accepting no as the default answer, and paving the way for the next generation of new towns.
“As part of the largest housebuilding programme since the post-war era, our ambitious Plan for Change will transform the lives of working people, once again connecting the basic principle that if you work hard, you should get on.”
A further three sites – Frome Gateway in Bristol, south of Cayton in North Yorkshire and Beam Park in Dagenham, east London – will receive support from the new homes accelerator scheme.
As part of efforts to regenerate areas and use brownfield land, ￡30 million will go to Bradford, ￡1.5 million to a scheme at Manchester Victoria North and ￡20 million will help transform small-scale council-owned sites around the country.
A new plan to broker disagreements between developers and government agencies which need to be consulted during the planning process has also been set out.
Quangos including National Highways, Natural England and the Environment Agency will need to bring planners and housebuilders to the table to iron out concerns, with ￡1 million of funding to speed up the planning approval process.
A ￡2 million package will support the Building Safety Regulator to speed up the process of signing off new high-rise housing blocks.
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Housing Secretary Ms Rayner said: “While our vision for the next generation of new towns is setting the stage for a housebuilding revolution in the years to come, urgent action is needed now to build the homes and infrastructure that our local communities are crying out for.
“That’s why our new homes accelerator is working at pace to find solutions and remove blockages in the system, executing long-lasting solutions to get spades in the ground. “