What are Angela Rayner’s housing reforms?

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Labour’s election was run with the promise of building 1.5 million new homes by 2029, and this week we’ve had the first big moves towards it.  So let’s analyse how the government are going to do it.

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00:00I am Theo with Manchester World and big news has come out this week that Labour's Greater

00:03Manchester-based deputy leader has overhauled the country's housing plans. Essentially local

00:07councillors in England are set targets for how many new homes they need to build each year.

00:11Under Rishi Sunak those were advisory targets whereas under Angela Rayner's proposals

00:15they've become compulsory and councillors would lose the right to protest against specific

00:18building works if they fail to hit their targets. Labour's target is 1.5 million new homes by 2029.

00:24The obvious question is where they'll go. Well Labour state that they'll try their best to

00:28avoid the green belt which are areas of you know massive environmental importance

00:33and beauty as well. They're going to focus primarily on brownfield sites meaning that

00:36the environment won't be harmed. They're also introducing something called the grey belt

00:40which will be like little developed parts of the green belt so we're talking old petrol stations,

00:44disused car parks. If everything goes to plan then it's job done for Labour but the challenge

00:48will be some councils may fail to meet their targets because some have gone up massively

00:52so how will the government be able to handle it? That's the big question, that's the big

00:56challenge for Labour. Hopefully this has been helpful. I'm Theo Coulson-Betts with Manchester

00:59World.

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