The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has reported on a judgment that paves the way for more housebuilding on smaller sites and that will get homes built more easily.\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) writes:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Court of Appeal decision restores a government policy which means affordable homes contributions will fall to those bigger developers building the largest sites \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
Ministers criticised the moves by West Berkshire District Council and Reading Borough Council who challenged the policy and brought legal action as \u2018a total waste of taxpayers\u2019 money\u2019.<\/p>\n
Smaller housebuilders make an important contribution to helping meeting the government\u2019s key ambition of delivering one million new homes.<\/p>\n
Brandon Lewis said: \u2018We\u2019re committed to building more homes, including record numbers of affordable homes \u2013 key to this is removing unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy that prevents builders getting on sites in the first place.\u00a0 Today\u2019s judgment by the Court of Appeal restores common sense to the system, and ensures that those builders developing smaller sites \u2013 including self-builders – don\u2019t face costs that could stop them from building any homes at all.\u00a0 This will now mean that builders developing sites of fewer than 10 homes will no longer have to make an affordable homes contribution that should instead fall to those building much larger developments.<\/p>\n
The Court of Appeal\u2019s judgment allowed on all grounds the government\u2019s appeal to a High Court ruling.<\/p>\n
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