We will build 1.5m homes, new housing secretary insists

The new housing secretary Steve Reed said that the government was “absolutely determined” to build 1.5 million new houses in England until 2029 and said, “What we’re going to do.”

The former Environmental Secretary inherited Angela Rayner’s residential summary in the reorganization of last week. After resigning from tax affairs.

Reed, BBC, the only way to call the housing “crisis” is the only way out of “building a baby -making”, and what it may require, although it threatens the sanctions to developers who drive his feet, he said.

When industrial leaders faced a “great challenge” to achieve the government’s goal, home construction “assembly” assembly “was faced.

The conservatives said the government’s housing promises were “for birds”.

Shadow Housing Secretary James Cleverly, “Everyone knows that the Labor Party cannot fulfill their housing promises.” He said.

“The new housing is based on supporters. But since the first day, this government is anti -business and anti -growth.”

The promise of building 1.5 million new houses on the next parliament – will last until 2029 – a significant commitment in Labour’s general election manifesto.

BBC Verify’s housing audience Recently, Labour has shown that the number of new houses in the UK in the first ruling year in power and continued to decline under conservatives.

However, more house -building practices have increased in the last six months.

The legislation, which aims to reform the planning system to accelerate the construction of the house, is currently passing through Parliament.

Reed, who puts pressure on whether 1.5 million promises is a hope or warranty, told the BBC: “This is what we’re going to do.

“We will do this jointly with developers and builders,” he said.

“My job is to remove each barrier from the road that stops the continuation of this construction.”

Speaking while visiting a housing development near Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, Reed said that he would find a “acceleration package” that will provide a “match” to the “match”.

“I don’t want developers to drag their feet. They don’t want to drag their feet – that’s their job.

He said: “They make money from continuing with construction. I will work jointly with the developers, but the building will be sanctions if it does not continue at speed and scale.”

this week The Federation of the Home Builders warned that the sector is facing rising regulatory costs and taxes.“United with delays in the processing of planning practices”.

In Bedfordshire, Garry Dixon, who runs a construction company working on smaller housing developments, said increasing costs are a “big” challenge.

“I say 75p three years ago, 80p brick bricks, and now a brick is like £ 1,20.” He said. “It’s just too big and it’s just a sector of this structure.”

The authority said that the government should put more money in education and apprenticeship to ensure that the sector has the skills that the sector needs, but this is not a “quick correction”.

Reed moved from Rayner’s failure to pay sufficient taxes for a fixed purchase, and moved from the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government.

In a separate interview with Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4, Reed said Rayner was “very close” to Rayner and his resignation was “very painful”.

“Angela is a very, very difficult friend of my friend. And you know at a single level, I wanted to reach him and support him as a friend, and I did it,” he said.

“But at another level, there are these events that I watch in TV news at the same time. And suddenly it is strange when you find yourself and what you have to the people around you in the news.”

You can listen to Steve Reed’s full interview with Nick Robinson about political thinking In BBC sounds. It will be at BBC2 at 12:30 on Friday at 12:30 and BBC Radio 4 at 17:30 on Saturday.