Labour to set out ambitious housebuilding plan

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Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says Labour will announce an ambitious housebuilding plan, having identified 'grey belt' areas in need of development.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We're being ambitious about house building.

00:01We set a target in the manifesto over the course

00:03of this parliament of one and a half million.

00:07If we could build more, we'd be delighted to do so.

00:09We've got to work with private sector developers.

00:11But where we can pull levers to deliver those houses,

00:14in terms of planning reform, in terms of planning officers

00:16and local authorities speeding up the process,

00:19we're going to do so.

00:20We're protecting Greenbelt land where

00:22it's legitimate Greenbelt land.

00:24But we have identified lots of sites across the country

00:26where it's been mislabeled as Greenbelt.

00:29It's effectively what we call Greybelt

00:31and should be used effectively for the needs

00:33of local communities as opposed to being left undeveloped.

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