David Cameron to announce housing policy in speech in today.
Tories will build 200,000 cut-price homes to help first-time buyers.
Councils to be forced to free up plots for people who want to build house.
Ministers claim it could lead to an extra 100,000 houses over five years.
Rules allowing for bigger extensions to be extended until 2020.

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The Conservatives will build 200,000 cut-price homes to help first-time buyers get a foot on the property ladder, David Cameron will pledge today. A scheme offering starter homes for sale at 20 per cent below the normal market price is to be doubled in size if the Tories win the election. The estimated discount on a typical £200,000 house would be a hefty £40,000. Scroll down for video. Levels of home ownership have plummeted to the lowest level in 30 years, according to latest figures. The scheme for 100,000 such homes was announced at the Conservative Party conference in September. The Prime Minister now wants to build 200,000 over the next five years. Pledging to produce a Britain ‘where everyone who works hard can have a home of their own’, Mr Cameron will say: ‘There is a particular kind of security that comes with having a home – and that’s what I want to talk about today. Too many people have been denied that security. ‘The young people in their 20s and 30s, still living with their parents, desperately saving for their own place. The couple who want a child but can’t afford to upsize – even though they both have full-on, full-time jobs. It shouldn’t be this way.’ David Cameron will pledge to build 200,000 cut-price homes to help first-time buyers get a foot on the property ladder. The move comes amid concern over falling levels of home ownership and the prospect that future generations may never be able to afford a home of their own. Mr Cameron is also considering a radical idea tabled by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to extend the right to buy to 2.5million tenants in housing association properties. The Tories’ Starter Homes initiative is due to begin today. First-time buyers aged under 40 are eligible to apply and can register their interest at www.starter-home.co.uk. The homes will be built by the private sector and several major developers such as Barratt and Taylor Wimpey have signed up to take part. Anyone buying one will have to hang on to it for at least five years before selling it on the open market to prevent speculators using the scheme to make a windfall profit. Ministers are consulting on whether to extend the minimum resale period to 15 years. Labour last night attacked the Tory housing plan after Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps struggled to explain how it would be funded. In an interview with Sky News Mr Shapps initially suggested homebuyers would be offered government-subsidised mortgages, before saying ministers would ‘get together’ with developers and landowners to finalise details. Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds said the comments suggested the Conservatives’ plans were not credible. ‘The Tories’ housing policies are in chaos,’ she said. ‘Grant Shapps, a former housing minister, couldn’t even explain how the Government would deliver a key election pledge.’ But Tory sources said there was a clear plan to keep prices down by allowing construction in areas where planning permission would not normally be granted for housing. Hundreds of acres of unwanted commercial and industrial land are to be turned over for the scheme, which Mr Cameron has said will help ‘unlock home ownership for a generation’. In some cases, developers will be allowed to build a small number of homes for sale on the open market to subsidise the cost of the new starter homes. Developers will also be spared infrastructure levies which add about £20,000 to the cost of a home on a normal development. Rules allowing homeowners to build conservatories without planning permission are to be extended. Controversial rules that allow homeowners to build big conservatories and extensions without planning permission are to be extended for another five years, the Tories said yesterday. The regulations, which permit extensions of up to 26ft long without authorisation – provided no neighbours object – provoked a major row when they were first announced by the Government in 2013. But Tory sources said they would be retained until at least 2020. Regulations which make it easier for former offices to be converted to homes would also be extended. Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps said that the move was designed to ensure ‘common sense on home extensions, so families aren’t crushed by expensive red tape’. Councils will also be forced to help find plots for people seeking to build their own homes, as part of a scheme that ministers believe could produce up to 20,000 new homes a year. Ministers say they want to offer new starter homes in both towns and the countryside – and it is possible that some will be built in the Green Belt. The price of homes available in the scheme will be capped at £250,000 outside London and £450,000 in the capital. Mr Cameron will pledge that design standards will not be allowed to slip, saying that people will not be offered ‘rabbit hutches or shoe boxes, but decent, well-built homes with gardens – places to start and raise a family’. But industry sources questioned whether the scheme could be delivered and pointed out that it has been doubled in size before a single home has been built. One senior industry figure described the target for 200,000 cut-price homes over five years as ‘very ambitious’ in the context of the 125,000 or so new houses started in total last year.
David Cameron tillkännager bostadspolitiken i tal i dag. Tories kommer att bygga 200 000 billiga bostäder för att hjälpa förstagångsköpare. Råd att tvingas frigöra tomter för personer som vill bygga hus. Ministrarna hävdar att det skulle kunna leda till ytterligare 100 000 hus under fem år. Regler som gör det möjligt att förlänga större förlängningar till 2020. Skriv en artikel baserad på dessa höjdpunkter.
David Cameron announces housing policy today. Tories will build 200,000 cheap homes to help first-time buyers. Advice to be forced to release plots for people who want to build houses. Ministers argue that it could lead to another 100,000 houses over five years. Rules allowing for the extension of major extensions until 2020. Write an article based on these highlights.
De konservativa kommer att bygga 200 000 billiga bostäder för att hjälpa förstagångsköpare att få en fot på fastighetsstegen, David Cameron kommer att lova idag. Ett system som erbjuder startbostäder till salu till 20 procent under det normala marknadspriset ska fördubblas i storlek om Tories vinner valet. Den beräknade rabatten på ett typiskt hus på 200 000 pund skulle vara 40.000 pund. Scrolla ner för video. Bostadsägandet har sjunkit till den lägsta nivån på 30 år, enligt de senaste siffrorna. Planen för 100 000 sådana hem tillkännagavs vid den konservativa partikonferensen i september. Premiärministern vill nu bygga 200 000 under de kommande fem åren. David Cameron lovar att producera ett Storbritannien ”där alla som arbetar hårt kan ha ett eget hem”, och han kommer att säga: ”Det finns en särskild sorts säkerhet som kommer med att ha ett hem – och det är vad jag vill tala om i dag. Alltför många människor har förnekats denna säkerhet. – Ungdomarna i 20- och 30-årsåldern bor fortfarande hos sina föräldrar och sparar desperat till sin egen plats. Paret som vill ha ett barn men inte har råd att öka storleken – trots att de båda har heltidsjobb. Det borde inte vara så här.’ David Cameron kommer att lova att bygga 200 000 billiga bostäder för att hjälpa förstagångsköpare att få en fot på fastighetsstegen. Flytten kommer mitt i oron över fallande nivåer av hemägande och utsikten att framtida generationer aldrig kommer att ha råd med ett eget hem. David Cameron överväger också en radikal idé som lagts fram av arbets- och pensionsministern Iain Duncan Smith om att utvidga rätten att köpa till 2,5 miljoner hyresgäster i bostadsrättsfastigheter. Tories’ Starter Homes-initiativet kommer att inledas idag. Förstagångsköpare under 40 år är berättigade att ansöka och kan registrera sitt intresse på www.starter-home.co.uk. Bostäderna kommer att byggas av den privata sektorn och flera stora byggherrar som Barratt och Taylor Wimpey har anmält sig för att delta. Den som köper en måste hålla fast vid den i minst fem år innan den säljs på den öppna marknaden för att förhindra spekulanter som använder systemet för att göra en oväntad vinst. Ministrarna samråder om huruvida minimiperioden för återförsäljning skall förlängas till 15 år. Labour attackerade i går kväll Tory-bostadsplanen efter att det konservativa partiets ordförande Grant Shapps kämpat för att förklara hur den skulle finansieras. I en intervju med Sky News föreslog Shapps inledningsvis att bostadsköpare skulle erbjudas statligt subventionerade hypotekslån, innan han sade att ministrarna skulle ”samlas” med byggherrar och markägare för att slutföra detaljerna. Skuggans bostadsminister Emma Reynolds sade att kommentarerna tydde på att de konservativas planer inte var trovärdiga. – Tories bostadspolitik är i kaos, sade hon. – Grant Shapps, en tidigare bostadsminister, kunde inte ens förklara hur regeringen skulle kunna avge en viktig vallöfte. Men Tory källor sade att det fanns en tydlig plan för att hålla priserna nere genom att tillåta byggande i områden där planeringstillstånd normalt inte skulle beviljas för bostäder. Hundratals hektar oönskad kommersiell och industriell mark ska lämnas över till systemet, vilket David Cameron har sagt kommer att bidra till att ”låsa upp hemmaägandet i en generation”. I vissa fall kommer byggherrar att få bygga ett litet antal bostäder till salu på den öppna marknaden för att subventionera kostnaderna för de nystartade bostäderna. Utvecklare kommer också att skonas infrastrukturavgifter som lägger cirka £ 20.000 till kostnaden för ett hem på en normal utveckling. Regler som gör det möjligt för husägare att bygga konservatorier utan planeringstillstånd ska utökas. Kontroversiella regler som tillåter husägare att bygga stora konservatorier och utbyggnader utan planeringstillstånd ska förlängas med ytterligare fem år, sa Tories igår. Föreskrifterna, som tillåter förlängningar på upp till 26ft långa utan tillstånd – gav inga grannar något att invända – framkallade en stor rad när de för första gången meddelades av regeringen 2013. Men Tory källor sade att de skulle behållas till åtminstone 2020. Föreskrifter som gör det lättare för tidigare kontor att omvandlas till bostäder skulle också utvidgas. Konservative partiordförande Grant Shapps sade att flytten var utformad för att säkerställa ”sundt förnuft när det gäller husförlängningar, så att familjer inte krossas av dyr byråkrati”. Råden kommer också att tvingas hjälpa till att hitta tomter för människor som söker bygga sina egna hem, som en del av en plan som ministrarna tror skulle kunna producera upp till 20 000 nya bostäder om året. Ministrarna säger att de vill erbjuda nystartsbostäder i både städer och på landsbygden – och det är möjligt att en del kommer att byggas i Gröna Bält. Priset på de bostäder som finns i systemet kommer att begränsas till 250 000 pund utanför London och 450 000 pund i huvudstaden. David Cameron kommer att lova att konstruktionsstandarder inte kommer att tillåtas att glida, och han säger att människor inte kommer att erbjudas ”kaniner eller skokartonger, utan anständiga, välbyggda bostäder med trädgårdar – platser att starta och bilda familj”. Industrikällor ifrågasatte dock om systemet kunde levereras och påpekade att det har fördubblats i storlek innan ett enda hem har byggts. I en siffra för den högre industrin beskrevs målet för 200 000 lågprisbostäder under fem år som ”mycket ambitiöst” i samband med de cirka 125 000 nya hus som startades i fjol.
The Conservatives will build 200,000 cheap homes to help first-time buyers get a foot on the property ladder, David Cameron will promise today. A system that offers start-up housing for sale at 20% below the normal market price should double in size if the Tories win the election. The estimated discount on a typical £200,000 house would be £40,000. Scroll down for video. Housing ownership has fallen to the lowest level in 30 years, according to the latest figures. The plan for 100,000 such homes was announced at the Conservative Party Conference in September. The Prime Minister now wants to build 200,000 over the next five years. David Cameron promises to produce a UK 'where everyone who works hard can have their own home', and he will say: 'There is a particular kind of security that comes with having a home – and that is what I want to talk about today. Too many people have been denied this security. “The young people in their 20s and 30s still live with their parents and save desperately for their own place. The couple who want a child but cannot afford to increase their size – even though they both have full-time jobs. It shouldn’t be like this.’ David Cameron will promise to build 200,000 cheap homes to help first-time buyers get a foot on the property ladder. The move comes amid concerns over falling levels of home ownership and the prospect that future generations will never be able to afford their own home. David Cameron is also considering a radical idea put forward by the Minister of Labour and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith to extend the right to purchase to 2.5 million tenants in residential property. The Tories’ Starter Homes initiative will be launched today. First-time buyers under 40 are eligible to apply and can register their interest at www.starter-home.co.uk. The homes will be built by the private sector and several large developers such as Barratt and Taylor Wimpey have signed up to participate. The buyer must hold onto it for at least five years before it is sold on the open market in order to prevent speculators using the system to make an unexpected profit. Ministers consult on whether to extend the minimum period for resale to 15 years. Labour attacked the Tory housing plan last night after Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps struggled to explain how it would be funded. In an interview with Sky News, Shapps initially proposed that home buyers be offered government subsidised mortgages, before saying that ministers would be "collected" with developers and landowners to complete the details. Shadow Housing Minister Emma Reynolds said the comments indicated that the Conservatives' plans were not credible. “Torie’s housing policy is in chaos,” she said. – Grant Shapps, a former housing minister, could not even explain how the government could make an important election promise. However, Tory sources said that there was a clear plan to keep prices down by allowing construction in areas where planning permits would not normally be granted for housing. Hundreds of hectares of unwanted commercial and industrial land will be handed over to the system, as David Cameron has said will help to 'unlock home ownership in a generation'. In some cases, developers will be allowed to build a small number of homes for sale on the open market to subsidise the costs of the new homes. Developers will also be spared infrastructure charges that add about £20,000 to the cost of a home on a normal development. Rules allowing homeowners to build conservatories without planning permission shall be extended. Controversial rules that allow homeowners to build large conservatories and expansions without planning permission will be extended for another five years," said Tories yesterday. The regulations, which allow extensions of up to 26ft long without permission – gave no neighbors any objection – provoked a large row when they were first announced by the government in 2013. But Tory sources said they would be retained until at least 2020. Provisions that would facilitate the transformation of previous offices into housing would also be extended. Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps said that the move was designed to ensure ‘common sense in terms of house extensions, so that families are not crushed by expensive bureaucracy'. The councils will also be forced to help find plots for people seeking to build their own homes, as part of a plan that ministers believe could produce up to 20,000 new homes a year. Ministers say they want to offer new start housing in both cities and rural areas – and it is possible that some will be built in the Green Belt. The price of the housing available in the system will be limited to £250,000 outside London and £450,000 in the capital. David Cameron will promise that design standards will not be allowed to slide, and he says that people will not be offered ‘rabbits or shoeboxes, but decent, well-built homes with gardens — places to start and start a family’. However, industrial sources questioned whether the system could be delivered and pointed out that it has doubled in size before a single home has been built. A figure for the higher industry described the target of 200,000 low-priced dwellings over five years as ‘very ambitious’ in connection with the approximately 125 000 new houses that started last year.