Lisa Nandy says Labor will “take over the taboo around the green belt and declassify low-quality parts…”. Photo: Matthew Horwood/Getty
She insisted that Labor would not compromise on 'green open spaces' or allow communities to 'get sucked into urban sprawl'.
She said instead that joint authorities – local bodies bringing together councils to share responsibilities and gain additional powers – will be asked to “identify areas for declassification”.
There are currently 10 joint authorities across England, including Greater Manchester, Liverpool region the City, as well as South and West Yorkshire, with the authorities generally coinciding with the green belt areas clustered around the urban centers of the country.
Ms Nandy said: “We are asking the joint authorities to identify sites where houses can be built.
“They usually already know, so many of them are abandoned sites that require some investment for their disinfection. and bring them back into use.”
Michael Heseltine was the initiator of the creation
To achieve this goal, Labor “creates development corporations that can take over the land.”
Development corporations, first created in the 1980s by Michael Heseltine, were created to bring together business leaders and boards. together to revive areas like London's Canary Wharf.
They currently exist in the form of Mayor Development Corporations, bodies headed by directly elected mayors with the power to buy and develop land and infrastructure.< /p>
>Ms. Nandi said development corporations would be helped by land value reform, which would lower the cost of housing construction. This will require a revision of the rules on binding purchase orders (CPOs) to eliminate “reliable value” – the added value that is taken into account on purchases based on the expectation of obtaining planning permission in the future
As a sign of her party's ambition, she wanted to “send a strong signal” to the construction industry “that they should ramp up capacity now” and Labor had been plotting to tackle the housing crisis for a decade. “What we can do in the first year will be completely different from what we can do in the 10th year. But we think that it is in such a time frame that we will be able to solve this problem, ”she said. /p>Conservative ambivalence
Last week, the Conservatives' ambivalence about building new homes was shown as the party launched attack ads against Labor and the Liberal Democrats on the issue, including one seemingly criticizing the latter for wanting to build 300,000 houses per year. target.
Attacking the tendency to succumb to a nimble – not in my backyard – trend, Ms. Nandi said that “politicians of all parties found it too easy to evade important decisions.”< /p>
“We were brought here by cowardice,” she said Ms. Nandi.
The failure to supply enough new houses was “the most important indicator of how policy has failed” and “the most visible symbol” of a “broken political system”.
“That's one of the reasons we've been very clear about what we want to do before the election so that we have the mandate to do it after it,” she added.
To the left
Ms Nandi said that Labor has also “gone and called” those leftists who claim that “owning a house is not Labour's business”, which is “completely wrong”.< /p
According to her, asset ownership was “the biggest and most significant division” in the country, and the recognition of this fact marked a “fundamental break” with “where Labor has been lately.”
Using the example of Germany and Scandinavia, Labor said that along with reforming the Green Belt, Labor would learn from “allied housing with major infrastructure projects”, suggesting it could be used to fund such schemes.
“If you want to build Northern Powerhouse Rail, which is what we are doing, one way to unlock funding for this is to build housing around the stations and along the route,” she said.
Ms Nandi also said that Labor is considering enlisting support from pension schemes for new social housing.
rent-buyers pulled out of the market, [the funds] partnered with the councils to buy up some of this property and return it to the public on a 100-year lease.”
And she promised to move from bricks by reducing the amount of money spent on housing allowance and spending more on housing construction.
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