Minister hails the government’s ‘new homes accelerator’

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Housing minister Matthew Pennycook says the government’s ‘new homes accelerator’ has “unlocked and sped up the delivery of almost 100,000 homes” in the past year. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, the announcement we're making today relates to our new Homes Accelerator.

00:04So one of the simplest and quickest ways to boost housing supply in the short term

00:09is to target those large-scale developments that already have planning permission

00:13but which, for a variety of reasons, have either stalled or are not building out as fast as they could be

00:17and give them the support they need to progress much more quickly.

00:21And unlocking an accelerating house building on such sites is precisely what that new Homes Accelerator

00:26has been doing over the past 12 months.

00:28We estimate it's unlocked and sped up the delivery of almost 100,000 homes as a result

00:33and we're announcing six new large sites this morning that are receiving targeted support from the Accelerator

00:40in Guildford, in Aylesbury, in Wigan, Somerset and two London boroughs.

00:44And absolutely, we estimate that can unlock another 12,000 homes

00:48making a contribution to that ambitious plan for change target of 1.5 million homes.

00:52Now, it will depend on a scheme-by-scheme basis when people can buy or rent homes

00:57that are coming forward on developments given support through the Accelerator.

01:00But that is already happening across sites across the country.

01:03I was in Cambridgeshire, Northstow, for example, seeing sites that are being accelerated

01:08under the support being given and people are already accessing those homes.

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