Rishi Sunak, during a recent visit to Stonehenge, will announce a housing reshuffle on Monday. s The conservative promise to build a million homes will be delivered.
Planning is to be made public to make it easier to build extensions, refurbish lofts and redesign outbuildings in a bid to create more livable spaces across the UK.
Additional flexibility will also be given to people who are refurbishing old shops, eateries and betting shops to accelerate the pace of modernization on fading downtown streets.
The Prime Minister and Michael Gove, Minister for Upgrading, will unveil the plans together at a keynote in King's Cross, a part of north London that has undergone major redevelopment in recent years.
The emphasis on housing in urban centers is partly an attempt to draw a clear dividing line in the elections with Labor, whose leadership supports the further development of the green belt.
Mr Sunak will say about achieving housing goals: “We will not do this by concrete the countryside – our plan is to build the right houses where there is the greatest need and where there is local support, in the heart of the UK's big cities.
“Our reforms today will help make that happen by restoring abandoned abandoned land, streamlining the planning process, and helping homeowners renovate and expand their homes sideways and upwards.”
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Mr Gove will say: “Most people agree that we need to build more houses – the question is how we do it.
“Rather than concrete the countryside, today we made a plan to build the right homes in the right places, where there is community support, and we are investing resources to help bring that vision to life.”
In their 2019 election manifesto, the Conservatives pledged to build a million homes over five years in Parliament. On Monday, Mr. Sunak will say the promise will be kept.
In the same manifesto, the Tories reiterated “the goal [to build] 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s.” It remains unclear whether this goal will be achieved.
At the heart of the announced package of reforms are changes in so-called “permitted building rights”, in particular changes in the use of property.
Consultations will be launched to make the changes effective next spring, likely before the next general election due sometime this year.
One of the pushes is to make it easier for homeowners to build up and out so it's easier to get approval for loft conversions and new additions.
Jeremy Clarkson was banned from building a restaurant on his farm. Credit: Amazon Prime.Television host Jeremy Clarkson was denied permission to set up a restaurant on his Diddly Squat Farm, a case that government ministers have previously said has inspired reforms.
As part of an effort to expand existing urban areas, ministers will announce the start of a new 'city block' in Cambridge.
The city will be the first to receive a so-called new 'super team' of top planners and other experts who will work with the council to speed up development.
Other measures are aimed at improving interaction with the local population and overseeing developments.
A new body called the Office for Place, at arm's length from government, is being created to help develop innovative community-driven development projects.
Advice on reforming local development plans to make them more accessible to people living in the area.
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Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labor, promised to “support builders, not blockers”, if his party enters the government, including increasing construction in a green belt in certain suitable places.
Leading Laborists chose examples of abandoned parking lots in the green belt, which could be built, but did not specify exactly how the rules would be weakened. > Electoral policy may have helped to form the updated attention of Tory to the urban areas. Labor has more urban constituencies in the round, while the Tories represent more rural constituencies.
Lisa Nandy, Labor's shadow secretary for housing, said in response to the announcements: “The Tories require serious chutzpah to make even more promises as the housing crisis gets worse and worse before their eyes and as housing construction nears its lowest level since World War II because Rishi Sunak has gone over to his own MPs.”
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“We don't need more reviews, press releases or empty promises. We need decisive action to get Britain to build.”
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