An incoming Labour government would reverse the current administration’s changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and restore mandatory housing targets “immediately”.
Labour leader Keir Starmer today launched his party’s manifesto ahead of the election. The document reinforced the party’s previous promises to build new homes and tackle planning. Pledges include:
- Building 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament.
- Immediately update the National Policy Planning Framework to restore mandatory housing targets
- Implementing solutions to unlock the building of homes affected by nutrient neutrality without weakening environmental protections
- Introducing a permanent mortgage guarantee scheme to support first time buyers
- Building a new generation of new towns. Alongside urban extensions and regeneration projects, these will form part of a series of large-scale new communities across England
- Bringing unfair maintenance costs to an end
- Reforming compulsory purchase compensation rules to deliver housing, infrastructure, amenity, and transport
- Introducing “golden rules” for housebuilding to ensure developments benefit communities and nature
- Taking “tough action” to ensure that planning authorities have up-to-date Local Plans and reform and strengthen the presumption in favour of sustainable development
- Funding additional planning officers by increasing the rate of the stamp duty surcharge paid by non-UK residents
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