An economist and former BBC chair will head up the taskforce, which is aiming for towns with 40% affordable housing
Angela Rayner, the deputy PM and housing secretary, has suggested that people will drop their objections to new homes being built in their communities if there is proper infrastructure in place.
In an interview with ITV’s This Morning, Rayner argued that people do not oppose new housing just “for nimby reasons”, but because they fear the local infrastructure cannot cope.
There isn’t a family that hasn’t got a housing need that isn’t met in the UK at the moment, so people are not like nimby for nimby reasons.
They’re saying ‘well hang on a minute our roads are already congested, we can’t get a GP appointment and now you want to build more houses here?’ So infrastructure is critical.
What happened in London under the previous system is that this arbitrary 35% urban uplift was imposed on every borough in London, different from any other metro area in the country, and got you to a figure of around 100,000.
What we’re saying to the mayor – and let’s be very clear on this, the current London plan is around 52,000 homes, current delivery in London is just over 30,000 – we’re saying the London target is 80,000. That’s incredibly stretching. The conversation I’m having with the mayor and officials in City Hall is we need you to do more.
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