Tens of thousands more homes will be built under plans to regenerate inner-city brownfield sites, Michael Gove has said. The Housing Secretary is set to detail measures next week that will allow developers to convert empty office blocks, department stores and commercial buildings through streamlined planning processes. The Government will seek to change the law so properties can be brought back into use more quickly to speed up housebuilding in town centres, and offer incentives for developers to build there. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We're announcing today changes to the planning rules that will mean that we can get more homes where we need them in our cities
00:05 But there's a big demand for new properties and we're allowing developers to take office blocks
00:11 Which are no longer necessary for business purposes and to turn them into new homes
00:15 But we're making sure that those are high quality new homes with space standards access to natural light and the very highest aesthetic
00:24 requirements being placed on developers so it's a win-win it enables more people to live in the hearts of our cities where they need
00:31 To and at the same time it also ensures that these are quality homes for the next generation
00:36 We've managed to build two and a half million homes since 2010 and we've also
00:41 built a million homes since 2019 and if you look at the last three decades the four years with the highest number of new homes
00:47 Have been since 2019 so we have been building many more homes, but we do need to go further
00:54 We do need to do more
00:55 Unfortunately when we we tried to introduce a law to get a hundred thousand additional new homes built labor voted against it
01:02 They're on the side of the blockers not the builders