00:00I am Theo with Manchester World and big news has come out this week that Labour's Greater
00:03Manchester-based deputy leader has overhauled the country's housing plans. Essentially local
00:07councillors in England are set targets for how many new homes they need to build each year.
00:11Under Rishi Sunak those were advisory targets whereas under Angela Rayner's proposals
00:15they've become compulsory and councillors would lose the right to protest against specific
00:18building works if they fail to hit their targets. Labour's target is 1.5 million new homes by 2029.
00:24The obvious question is where they'll go. Well Labour state that they'll try their best to
00:28avoid the green belt which are areas of you know massive environmental importance
00:33and beauty as well. They're going to focus primarily on brownfield sites meaning that
00:36the environment won't be harmed. They're also introducing something called the grey belt
00:40which will be like little developed parts of the green belt so we're talking old petrol stations,
00:44disused car parks. If everything goes to plan then it's job done for Labour but the challenge
00:48will be some councils may fail to meet their targets because some have gone up massively
00:52so how will the government be able to handle it? That's the big question, that's the big
00:56challenge for Labour. Hopefully this has been helpful. I'm Theo Coulson-Betts with Manchester
00:59World.
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