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Introduction Of Flexibility At The Local Level Through The Allocation Of ...


Introduction of flexibility at the local level through the allocation of additional land in Local Development Frameworks, with the release of this additional land triggered by market signals.
Establishment of a Community Infrastructure Fund to help to unlock some of the barriers to development.
Local authorities should be allowed to keep the council tax receipts from new housing developments for a period of time to provide incentives for growth and to meet transitional costs associated with development.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/consultations_and_legislation/barker/consult_barker_index.cfm
In response to the Barker Review the government published a report presenting their intention to increase the supply of housing to 200,000 per year by 2016. The report also stipulated the following:
A focus on providing affordable housing for ownership and rent
A cross-government review in the run up to the 2007 Government spending round to better co-ordinate strategic delivery of the infrastructure investment necessary to support housing growth. This means investigating and securing the economic network of investment needed to support future housing developments.
A £40million start up fund for infrastructure projects for new growth points
(http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1503525)
In 2005 John Prescott commented on the shortage of housing in the UK:
Successive governments failed to build enough homes. We reached a situation in the last decade where we were building fewer homes than since the 1920's. [] Although we've now achieved the highest rate of building new homes for more than 15 years, we still face a huge mismatch between supply and demand for housing. Part of the solution has been to improve design, increase density [] We are building 67% of new homes on recycled land compared to just 56% in 1997. [] housing densities in the South East have risen by a third, so we use less land for more homes. (Prescott 2005)
The current housing situation in the UK, since 2004, is still struggling to provide for the increasing number of first time buyers and single person households. Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, established that the number of new build homes over the past five years has remained the same at 154,000, with the number of low-cost ‘social' homes falling from 16,999 in 2000-2001 to 13,601 in 2002-2003.
http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/housing-shortage-supply-demand-england.


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