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Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable - Housing Green Paper
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| Resource Type: |
document --> policy documents
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
2007 |
| Availability: |
Cm 7191, Product Code: 07 HC 0478
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Department for Communities and Local Government - DCLG
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Publisher: |
HMSO
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| Publisher City: |
St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich, NR3 1BQ.
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| ISBN: |
978 010 1719124
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Brownfields
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| Short description: |
This Housing Green Paper seeks views on the Government's proposals to increase the supply of housing, to provide well designed and greener homes that are supported by infrastructure and to provide more affordable homes to buy or rent. Plans include:
More homes – backed by more ambitious building targets, increased investment, and new ways of identifying and using land for development
More social housing – ensuring that a decent home at an affordable price is for the many, not the few
Building homes more quickly – by unblocking the planning system and releasing land for development
More affordable homes – by increasing the options for low cost home ownership and more long term and affordable mortgage products and
Greener homes – with high environmental standards and flagship developments leading the way.
Recycling homes and land: We also need to make the most of existing homes and
buildings and disused land. We believe brownfield land should be the priority for
development. The Government will continue with the national target that over 60% of
homes should be built on brownfield land and every region and local authority will be
expected to set their own target for brownfield land use.
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| Long description: |
Supporting documents at http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1511923 include
Eco-towns prospectus – setting out a vision and specification for local authorities and developers, including an invitation to propose at least five new eco-towns
Building a Greener Future: policy statement – our strategy and timetable for achieving zero-carbon homes by 2016
Building Regulations - Energy Efficiency Requirements for New Dwellings, a forward look at what the standards may be in 2010 and 2013
Water Efficiency in New Buildings – our joint policy statement with DEFRA
The future of the Code for Sustainable Homes – Making a rating mandatory
Strategic Land Availability Assessment: Practice Guidance – to provide local planning authorities with advice on identifying land for housing and assessing deliverability; and
Impact Assessment for Homes for the future
Regulatory Impact Assessment for Building a Greener Future .
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 05/08/2007
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