The Housing Green Paper

Michael Haines Deputy Chair LGA Environment Board

Published 23rd July, 2007

Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable

Numbers, numbers, numbers

• 240,000 additional homes a year by 2016

• Two million by 2016 and three million by 2020

National versus Local

• Targets • The RSS

• Local decisions making

• Land capacity

Newer, quicker, greener

Planning Process

• Need for infrastructure

• Planning Charge

• Independent Commission on major development sites

Responsibility without Power?

• Councils charged with delivery – but not given the powers

• 5 Year land supply • Existing stock • Strategic planning for communities• Infrastructure • Skills and deliverability• Joined up Government?

What we are doing?

• Meetings with Ministers and Civil Servants

• Communications campaign• Research and development -skills -housing finance -land supply -new delivery vehicles