Build more homes on small sites
May 13, 2016
Press release from the Department of Communities and Local Government and Brandon Lewis MP headlines ‘Judgement paves way to build more homes on small sites’.
Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis hailed a judgment that paves the way for more housebuilding on smaller sites and that will get homes built more easily.
The Court of Appeal decision restores a government policy which means affordable homes contributions will fall to those bigger developers building the largest sites – while those smaller builders developing sites of 10 homes or fewer will be able to get work started on their sites, without facing charges that could leave them unable to build any homes at all.
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