Housing supply
The Government says it wants a very large increase in the building of new homes, from current levels of around 180,000 a year in England (2006/7) to 240,000 a year – a total of 3 million new homes by 2020.
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The problem
Such a huge increase in housebuilding could sharply raise the rate at which countryside is built on and add to the environmental damage associated with housebuilding — more climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions, increased road traffic and congestion, more strain on water sources, increased quarrying in the countryside.
- Create more affordable housing
- Better use of derelict or underused 'brownfield' land
- More efficient use of land
- Encourage urban regeneration
- Lowering the speculative demand for housing
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