Labour pledges biggest affordable housing boost ‘in a generation’

By Tom Lowe2023-10-09T07:03:00

Party would crack down on developers trying to “wriggle out of their responsibilities”, Angela Rayner says

Labour would oversee the biggest boost in affordable and social housing “in a generation”, the party’s deputy leader has said.

Angela Rayner told Labour’s conference in Liverpool that the party would speed up housing delivery by reforming the planning system and strengthening rules on developers to stop them “wriggling out of their responsibilities”.

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