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The government have
set high targets for the private sector
to provide more homes particularly affordable
ones. There is a projected increase of
around 10%.in the number of households
by 2021 and a decrease in the average
household size from 2.29 persons to 2.15.
This will require around 2.5 million extra
homes. This averages out at almost 170000
new homes per year.
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There are many initiatives
to achieve this increase in housing requirements.
These include housing market renewal which enables
older houses to be refurbished particularly in
deprived areas, regional housing strategies and
the financing of local authority housing.
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The government have also
brought forward measures to help in the buying
selling and owning a home such as the Home Information
Packs, home ownership schemes (including Key
Worker Living and Right to Buy) and residential
leaseholds.
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The dilemma then arises for
the builder/developer on how they will play their
part in helping the government achieve their house
building targets. They are asked to build more
houses but with a decreasing amount of land available.
The main guidance from the government is to build
on brown field sites These are ever more difficult
to find and when found quite difficult to identify
who they belong to.
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Housing and Planning Minister,
Yvette Cooper, said: “People want to know
that their sons and daughters will be able to
afford a home of their own. That is why many people
in our communities now recognise the need to build
new homes that the next generation needs. Unless
we increase house building rates less than a third
of thirty year old couples will be able to afford
a home of their own in twenty years time. |
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