The government is pursuing its plans to build homes for £60,000 on land owned by English Partnerships (EP). More than 100 NHS sites will pass over to the OPDM in March, adding to the thousands of acres owned by EP, which will be developed under the initiative. EP is now holding a competition challenging housebuilders to produce a well designed, environmentally efficient home. Housebuilders will be invited to bid for the right to develop on EP sites with 30% of the units being built to the target of £60,000. Crest Nicholson chief executive John Callcutt has warned that Prescott’s plan was in danger of “repeating the mistakes of the 1970s and 1980s by putting people in boxes with scant regard for the environment they lived in.” Callcutt went on to say there was “no doubt that houses can be built for £60,000, but what about the roads, the infrastructure and the living environment? Anything which helps to make housing more affordable is fine by me but it needs to be sustainable.”