The East Midlands regional housing board has asked the chancellor to redistribute the £1.5bn single regional housing pot.
It asked GordonBrown to take £20m of the fund away from the South-east and use it to pay for infrastructure in the Milton Keynes housing growth area.

In a document submitted to the Treasury ahead of this summer's comprehensive spending review the board, which has £100m to spend this year, complained it has not got any funds for the growth area.

It claims its neighbours – London, the South and the South-east – have been given more than their fair share of money to fund the other three growth areas set out in the Communities Plan: the Thames Gateway, Ashford and the London-Stansted corridor.

We empathise with the East Midlands but it needs to get funding from a wider pot

Mike Gwilliam, South-east regional housing board

Source

Housing Today