00:00I think they are achievable. They're very stretching. They will be difficult to achieve.
00:03We are asking more of councils. But we stood on a very clear manifesto to build a million
00:09and a half homes over those five years. Councils and councillors across the country would have
00:14been very aware of what we're asking and where it is. And what we're saying to them is we
00:18must have a planning system geared towards meeting housing need in full. That's a very
00:23clear difference of opinion between us and the Conservative Party. They put in place
00:27a planning system not geared towards meeting need in full. We've got to do that given the
00:31scale of the housing crisis we face. So it is asking more of councils. Those councils
00:35that share our ambition and genuinely need support, we'll look to target support at them.
00:40Those handful of recalcitrant councils out there that just say no, we're not going to
00:44accept building in our area. We're prepared to use our full ministerial intervention powers
00:48to ensure we get the houses built. We can. It's got to be a question of where the houses
00:52go, not whether they're built at all.
Comments