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£83m boost for house building
Date published: 10 March 2010
THOUSANDS of affordable new homes will be built across England in a bid to get the country back on track after the recession.
More than £4.2 million is to be invested in 256 new homes in Greater Manchester, including 51 in Oldham.
The scheme aims to help more families take the first step on the property ladder through the Government’s Home Buy scheme which has already helped 130,000 people. The funding will also safeguard around 1,700 construction jobs.
Housing Minister John Healey has made it a requirement that those receiving funding must provide apprenticeships and opportunities for local workers.
The Minister has already given money to 141 projects which had been put on hold by the recession.
As part of the Government’s drive to make new homes cleaner and greener priority has been given to those schemes which are set to meet high environmental standards.
Mr Healey said: “We’re putting the weight of Government investment into building much-needed affordable homes, keeping people in work and giving young people a chance of apprenticeships.
“That’s why I’m allocating £83 million to get 87 stalled developments across the country up and running again, creating 1,700 jobs and giving more than 2,200 first-time buyers the chance to take an affordable step on to the property ladder.”
More than £3.6 billion has been allocated for housebuilding since June, funding nearly 68,000 new homes, starting the largest council house building programme for two decades and freeing public land for housing.
Comments
Oldham needs cheaper housing for all those poor people who can't afford to get out of this dramatically-declining town.
Flake - Did you know that half a million Brits live in France? 350,000 in Spain? In total, 5.5 million Brits live abroad. What if those countries kicked them out? You'd probably be outraged. Too many? The UK has a population density of 256 people/sq.km. Holland has 399 and they seem to manage. (An equivalent UK would have a population of 97 million.)
ammypam- Why are you quoting facts, these pages are for myth spreading only, isn't that right Flake?
I am sure the Native Americans, Aborigines and Maoris said the same things about overpopulation, but which "civilised" society was going to listen to them when they were overwhelmed!
ammypam, why did 5.5 million british feel the need to go abroad? Because they are treated like 2nd class in their own land and have to pay for the privilege.
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More & More & More! When will it end? when every inch of soil is coevered in concrete?
If Liebor hadn't gone so OTT with immigration this would not be necessary. There are too many people in the UK, during the war we couldn't feed the population properly if anything similar happened everyone would starve - food would run out very quickly.
By Flake @ 10/03/2010 20:19:15