00:00Well we've asked the taskforce to report within 12 months but if it can do so earlier on specific
00:04sites and notify us that there are appropriate locations that they think we should move on
00:09we're absolutely willing to do that if they come forward. I'm not too worried actually
00:12about the sort of resistance from communities. What we've had in our early stages of these
00:16conversations and what we're going to ask the taskforce to double down on is those conversations
00:20with local leaders, local communities, in places where they want development to come
00:24forward and they see large-scale new settlements of this kind as a way to meet their housing
00:29need of a particular area rather than, if you like, a few hundred homes on the edge
00:33of every village and urban settlement in the area. Sometimes a large-scale new community
00:37is the solution over and above what local authorities need to do. So there have been
00:42expressions of interest, I'm sure we'll see more. Ultimately it is for ministers and government
00:46to determine where the appropriate locations are and we have a duty to do so in the national
00:51interest because we have a housing crisis, an acute housing crisis.
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