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The government has also invested 800 million on regeneration for houses in the Stoke, Newcastle and Staffordshire Moorlands areas. (The Birmingham Post 2006, 26).This means that those in very poor condition will need to be partly replaced and in some cases demolished. This is an exciting opportunity for new construction methods that have been relatively unproven to be incorporated into a major urban renewal scheme. The chief executive of ‘RENEW', John de Kanter is quoted as saying, ‘the RENEW housing market renewal is committed to refurbishing 50,000 properties and building 15,000 new homes, and signals an unprecedented opportunity for companies specialising in off-site manufactured housing to get a piece of the action.' (Ibid). This is illustrates how despite modular production and construction not being a novelty development in the construction industry, it is the infiltration of it into existing business and economic frameworks that is proving to be the most difficult.
The government is under pressure to respond to the decreasing availability of land, especially in the south of England. Regeneration is costly and rather than repair or modernise existing dwellings it might be cheaper to demolish and erect modular homes in their stead. Increased housing densities are going to be imperative in the near future, requiring innovative spatial design solutions. This means that planning considerations will be forced to adapt and become more flexible.

Sustainability
In response to the Egan report the last seven years in construction industry reform have brought about new ideas and partnerships working towards sustainable communities. In his speech at the Building Research Establishment in 2005, John Prescott conveyed the following:
- that Greenwich was a good example of how the English Partnerships Millennium Village uses modern methods of construction to create a new sustainable community.
- that the Government‘s £38 billion Sustainable Communities Plan aims to give more people the chance to live in a quality home, in a successful community.
- that the government is doubling investment in social housing: £40 billion of public and private money in social housing.
- that they have cut the number of non-decent social rented homes by a million - and we will tackle the same number over the next 5 years.
- The cost of building homes has increased by over 50%. The cost of social housing has gone up by over 60%.
- that the government took £250 million of the Housing Corporation's budget to invest in 25% of affordable housing to be built using modern methods of construction. This figure has now changed to 40%.
- that in 2004 over £1 billion of new investment through the Housing Corporation used some form of modern methods of construction. Over 68,000 people live in social rented homes which were using modern methods.

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