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PM and Housing Secretary act to ensure more new homes are built, plus local property news and views
being built in their areas to help tackle the housing crisis, Housing Secretary Sajid Javid has warned. His comments came in the same week that Prime Minister Teresa May, in announcing reforms to planning rules in England, said that young people without family wealth are “right to be angry” at not being able to buy a home. She said home ownership was
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largely unaffordable to those not backed by “the bank of mum and dad”, adding that this disparity was entrenching social inequality and “exacerbating divisions between generations”. The PM’s comments came during a speech to the National Planning Conference when she said the existing National Planning Policy Framework will be overhauled, pending a consultation, with up to 80 proposals fi rst put forward last year being implemented. Key measures include:
• 10% of homes on major sites ouncils in
England could be stripped of planning powers if not enough homes are
should be available for affordable home ownership. • Councils to consider revoking planning permission after two years if building has not started. • Ancient woodlands and aged trees to get specifi c protection. • Councils will have to adopt a new nationwide standard showing housing need in their areas.
Local councils have been targeted by Sajid Javid, Housing Secretary, who has said that those which fail to meet targets will be stripped of the right to decide what is built within their boundaries, with inspectors making decisions instead. The new Planning Policy Framework will contain new rules to determine how many homes councils must build – taking into account local house prices, wages and key worker numbers. Mr Javid said he would be
“breathing down” the necks of local authorities to ensure building targets, set by the government, are met, adding: “If you are in an area where the unaffordability ratio is much higher you will have to build even more. It will make clear to councils that this number is minimum, not a maximum.”
Hair today, blocked tomorrow
Latent damage is a little-known concept. In short, it is damage occurring later than caused, for example a shower tray drainpipe blocked by previous tenants’ long hairs, may not manifest until months after new tenants arrive, when they experience slow or blocked drains. Unless the drains were cleared between
lets, landlords cannot be certain of the culprit. So, unblocking charges should not be sent to current tenants. Landlords, during student summer vacations, it is prudent to inexpensively unblock all sources of latent damage. Such fair play and pre-emptive action is the pragmatism and result of more than 30 years’ experience that Leydon Lettings adopt towards tenants.
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