As the Labour landslide continues to show the country’s dissatisfaction with the outgoing governments policies and perhaps personalities, here is a refresher on what is promised, I wonder if anyone will be betting on these!
- Mandatory housebuilding targets for local authorities
- Build 1.5 million new homes over a five-year period
- Planned new towns with a minimum of 40% of affordable housing, using design codes
- 150,000 social and affordable homes a year
- ‘Freedom to Buy’ policy to get 80,000 people on to the housing ladder by making the government’s existing mortgage guarantee scheme permanent
- ‘First Dibs’ policy to give local people first refusal on homes in new development
- Agreed design standards for “gentle urban development”.
- Require combined and mayoral Authorities to strategically plan for housing growth in their areas.
- Combined authorities to receive new planning powers along with new freedoms and flexibilities to make better use of grant funding
- Planning passports for developers which meet design standards, allowing easier brownfield development
- Create new ‘grey belt’ land class for poor quality areas of the green belt with requirement for at least 50% affordable housing
- Reform planning system for onshore wind to allow more projects to go ahead
- Hire 300 more planning officers, paid for by increasing stamp duty on homes purchased by non-UK residents by 1%
- “Tough action” to ensure planning authorities have up-to-date local plans
- Strengthen presumption in favour of sustainable development
- Independent inquiry into HS2 to look into how future projects can avoid cost overruns
- Fully committed to Northern Powerhouse Rail
- Merge the National Infrastructure Commission and Infrastructure and Projects Authority into a new body called National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), which would have new powers.
- Designate prisons as ‘nationally significant’ projects in an effort to deliver 14,000 additional places by 2030
- Revamped apprenticeship levy to fund specialist training colleges
- Firms can use up to half of apprenticeships funds to train existing staff or pay for pre-apprenticeship training
- New law aiming to cut immigration by forcing government departments to draw up skills improvement plans in high migration sectors including construction
- £15bn on green investment a year (£4.7bn of which is new money)
- Upgrade five million homes to an EPC C rating over the course of the parliament
- Decarbonise UK power by 2030 under new body, Great British Energy
- Targets for faster approvals on renewable projects
- Double onshore wind, triple solar and quadruple offshore wind by 2030
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