Posted 30.04.17
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Housing and Planning Minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed (3 April 2017) that councils will have new tools to speed up development of derelict and underused land for new homes.
Local authorities across the country will now have to produce and maintain up-to-date, publicly available registers of brownfield sites available for housing locally.
The new registers will help housebuilders identify suitable brownfield sites quickly, promising to unlock land for thousands of new homes.
Communities will be able to highlight local derelict or underused building sites that are primed for redevelopment. This can bring investment to the area and increase the number of new homes in the area.
