Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner defends the government’s decision to bypass local housing committees in reaching housebuilding targets. She says, “we’re going to set the clear standards that we expect to deliver the housing that people need”.
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00:00We've been honest with the public that we need to meet our housing needs, that's what
00:04we were elected on, but by having these mandatory local plans instead of the speculative developments
00:10on presumption that we saw under the previous government, local areas will identify the
00:16land that they think that they should build the houses and importantly the infrastructure
00:21that people will need as part of that housing development in a planned and coordinated way.
00:26In the past we haven't seen that and we've seen years of differ and delay, legal challenges,
00:31we're going to set the clear standards that we expect and deliver the housing that people
00:35need.