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Govt publishes new housing bill
The government has set out plans for and measures to encourage more market, social and shared ownership housing on disused public sector land, and in new eco towns, with £8 billion for new affordable homes.
New measures in the Housing and Regeneration Bill include building 3 million greener, more affordable new homes by 2020 for first-time buyers and families.
The says the new legislation will remove barriers to councils building their own social housing. Councils will now be able to keep the full rents from new council houses and use any surpluses to help pay for new social homes.
The government will also work with local councils on some of the 10 new eco towns the Prime Minister has pledged by 2020.
The Bill includes the plan to introduce the Homes and Communities Agency - a merger of English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation - established to bring together responsibility for land and money to deliver new housing, community facilities and infrastructure.
In advance of the government's target for all new homes to be zero-carbon in 2016, developers will need to indicate whether a sustainability assessment has been made and, if it has, provide that information to prospective purchasers.
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