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Get building or lose your land: Labour propose strict new demands for developers
House builders will be forced to commit to delivery time frames to get planning permission under new government rules - and those who leave sites unfinished could lose their land to local authorities.
Developers will also have to submit annual progress reports to councils to show they're on track, and any who get the all-clear to build and then don't deliver may face fines too. Large housing sites can take more than 10 years to build, but the government wants those with more affordable housing built twice as fast.
The tough new rules are designed to help the government with its target of building 1.5 million new homes by the general election of 2029, with Angela Rayner saying "it's time for developers to roll up their sleeves". The deputy prime minister and housing secretary said the proposals would put an end to "sites with planning permission gathering dust for decades, while a generation struggle to get on the housing ladder".
Sir Keir Starmer has regularly spoken of wanting to back the "builders" rather than the "blockers.
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