Please read this article http://www.housing.org.uk/default.aspx?tabid=212&mid=828&ctl=Details&ArticleID=3092
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Almost 85,000 planned homes have been scrapped by councils across England in the wake of the Government’s decision to axe regional housebuilding targets, according to a campaign group. An independent report, commissioned by the National Housing Federation, found many town halls have substantially reduced plans for new homes following the decision by ministers to advise them to ignore the previous government’s regional housebuilding targets and the subsequent abolition of the targets altogether. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles wrote to local authorities in May outlining the Government’s commitment to abolishing regional strategies. This followed a letter sent to local authorities last year by Caroline Spelman, who was then shadow Communities Secretary, announcing the Conservative party’s intention to abolish regional targets following the election. On 6 July, Mr Pickles formally revoked the regional targets with immediate effect saying: “They were a terrible, expensive, time-consuming way to impose house building.”
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