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More than 100 locations in all of England have seen themselves as potential new cities, with Sir Keir Starrer claiming that some would be under construction until the end of this parliament.
The prime minister will announce the new city program on Thursday as part of what he claims in Great Britain’s largest building program for over half a century.
“We will have those who stand in the way,” he told the journalists before the announcement.
According to Starrer, the demand from the local authorities showed to build new cities – in practice most extensions will be into existing settlements – that the locals included “the dream of home ownership”.
Applications were received in every region in England, he added, and about a dozen locations are expected to be approved. The largest number came from London and southeast.
Starrer swore Build 1.5 million new houses During the current five -year parliament, a goal is that many industry experts for stretching, if not impossible.
In the long term, he would like to start a fresh generation of new cities, each delivering at least 10,000 new houses.
According to Starrer, everyone would be built under strict conditions, and he expected the construction to begin before the next election, which must take place by 2029.
In addition to the requirements for new cities that have good facilities and affordable apartments, he said that their design should be “neutral” so that it would be impossible to say from the outside whether a house of social living space or private property was.
Starrer said: “In our new cities, our goal is that at least 40 percent of the houses are affordable, including social housing.”
Last year Starrer started one “New Towns Task Force” Including industry experts such as the former local councilor Sir Michael Lyons and the economist Kate Barker. Since then, the group has published a draft of draft principles for the new sankt.
When visiting a housing estate on Thursday, Starer will say that the next review of the expenditure in June will deliver “financial security and stability” for the program.
Downing Street officials stated that they made publicly financed loans for development companies behind the new cities, but that they would be repeated when the country was published, which means that the system is neutral.
Starrer hopes to reproduce the successful wave of new cities, which will be built in places such as Welwyn Garden City, Crawley and Stevenage in England, CWMBRAN in Wales and East Kilbride in Scotland after the Second World War.
Recent attempts to revive the concept such as “Ecotowns” under Gordon Browns Labor government or new cities under David Cameron’s conservative coalition from 2010-15, but have largely failed to set off.
The ministers claim that a program “New Homes Accelerator” manages to solve the delivery of some residential areas through unnecessary delays.
But the National Housing Federation, which represents the housing associations, and the Home Builders Federation, an industry group, warned in October that the government was on the right track to miss the 1.5 million destination by almost a third, since high Real estate prices and interest rates would limit the market.
