Reviving Britain‘s Urban Landscape: Rishi Sunak’s Bold Plan for Housing
Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has pledged to boost housebuilding and deliver hundreds of thousands of new homes to Britain’s major cities.
He plans to do this by enforcing new planning regulations that enable developers’ trouble-free entry onto so called brownfield sites and empty commercial spaces.
Urban councils that fall below 95% of their housing target will only be allowed to refuse planning permissions in exceptional circumstances when the impact significantly and demonstrably outweighs the benefits.
The new rules could see London alone unlock an additional 11,500 homes simply by converting empty offices and shops, rejuvenating high streets throughout the city.
Utilising brownfield sites is the most sensible option and will provide housing in places where it is most needed and wanted.
Sunak said: “We need to build homes in the places where people need and want them. There’s little point trying to force large new estates on our countryside and green belt when that is where public resistance to development is strongest and where the GP surgeries, schools and roads don’t exist to support new communities.
The failure to build up in the heart of the capital pushes developers outwards, putting pressure on the suburbs and countryside that we want to protect”
