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Housing
Homes for the future: The Housing Green Paper
On 23 July 2007, Yvette Cooper, Minister for Housing and Planning, announced the launch of the Government's Housing Green Paper - Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable.
The Paper sets out our plans for three million new homes by 2020 which include:
- more homes - backed by more ambitious building targets, increased investment, and new ways of identifying and using land for development
- more social housing - ensuring that a decent home at an affordable price is for the many, not the few
- building homes more quickly - by unblocking the planning system and releasing land for development
- more affordable homes - by increasing the options for low cost home ownership and more long term and affordable mortgage products and
- greener homes - with high environmental standards and flagship developments leading the way
Supporting documents, published alongside Homes for the future:
- Eco-towns Prospectus - setting out a vision and specification for local authorities and developers, including an invitation to propose at least five new eco-towns
- Building a Greener Future: policy statement - our strategy and timetable for achieving zero-carbon homes by 2016
- Building Regulations: Energy efficiency requirements for new dwellings - a forward look at what the standards may be in 2010 and 2013
- Water Efficiency in New Buildings - our joint policy statement with DEFRA
- The future of the Code for Sustainable Homes - Making a rating mandatory
- Strategic Housing Market Assessments: Practice Guidance - to provide local planning authorities with advice on identifying land for housing and assessing deliverability; and
- Impact Assessment for Homes for the future
- Final Regulatory Impact Assessment: Building a Greener Future.
In addition the following document was published by English Partnerships (now part of the Homes and Communities Agency):
- Implementing Planning Performance Agreements (external link) - preliminary advice that accompanies the Department's current consultation on Planning Performance Agreements: a new way to manage large scale planning applications
