Responsibility to Deliver the Homes They Need? Says South West Housing Initiative Co-Ordinator Martin Willey

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The South West needs at least 25,000 new homes each year at a time when fewer than half that number are being built.

The coalition Government has scrapped national targets to build that number of homes and overturned planning rules to put the responsibility on to local communities and their councils to deliver the homes they need.

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Responsibility to Deliver the Homes They Need? Says South West Housing Initiative Co-Ordinator Martin Willey

Can those communities and councillors rise to that challenge and deliver the homes that will sustain their local economy, house their young people and key workers, and underpin the continuance of local services like post offices, pubs, schools and hospitals? This region - with the country's largest affordability gap between average house prices and average earnings and the biggest delivery gap between ...

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