Leyland, Lancashire. UK Weather,. 2 Aug 2021. Roofers fitting Klober Permo Air Open Underlay Roofing Breather Felt as a post-pandemic building boom of 100,000 affordable homes a year is needed to provide housing fit for social care, health and other key workers. KeepMoat are building 520 homes on a green field housing development site at Farington Mews. Today should be mostly dry, with a mixture of sunny spells and cloud throughout the day. Credit; MediaWorldImages/AlamyLiveNews
The LGA says councils must be given the powers to build thousands more desperately-needed council homes, where they are locally needed and spearhead the national recovery from the virus. Not only will this boost the supply of affordable housing, it will also enable the country to get building again following a downturn in construction as a result of many house builders closing their sites. In a new report being launched today, Delivery of Council Housing – Developing a Stimulus Package Post-Pandemic, the LGA sets out a range of key issues and recommendations to government to deliver a new major building programme of social homes, including: The Government should expand council housing delivery by bringing forward and increasing the £12 billion extension of the Affordable Homes Programme announced in the Budget earlier this year, with an increased focus on homes for social rent. Right to Buy should be reformed with councils able to retain 100 per cent of receipts from the sale of homes under the scheme, the deadline to spend the money from sales should be extended to at least five years, and councils need the power to set the size of discounts locally. To increase the capacity of the building industry, which will have suffered following coronavirus, a skills and jobs strategy is needed to meet the needs of accelerating a social housing building programme.
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