Housing Minister Lee Rowley has said London Mayor Sadiq Khan has failed to meet his housing targets as the government sets out planning rules to boost the construction of new homes on brownfield sites. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It's all about building more homes but building in the right places and what we're saying today is
00:05 that we need to build more homes in urban areas on brownfield land where there is good infrastructure
00:10 like GPs and schools and good transport links and we're saying to councils and mayors that have
00:15 failed to do that they need to do better. So Zeeq Khan, his own numbers say that he needs to bring
00:20 forward over 60,000 new homes a year. He's set a target of about 50,000 homes a year. He's only
00:26 delivering about 30 to 35,000 homes a year. He needs to do better. He has a choice. He's been
00:33 in power now for eight years. He's failed to do that and what the government is going to do is
00:37 say to people like Zeeq Khan you've failed and so we're going to change the rules to make sure that
00:41 London contributes more because London needs more housing and if Zeeq Khan won't do it we will make