'Think of local communities', Brokenshire tells housing developers

By Hamish Champ2019-02-22T13:32:00

Housing secretary says focus shouldn’t just be on numbers of homes being built

Ambitions to build more homes should not just focus on the number being built but should consider the needs of the people they were being built for, secretary of state for housing James Brokenshire told an industry conference yesterday.

Speaking at the Create Communities event in London Brokenshire said there should be as much focus on the communities which the new homes were being built for as the numbers of units being constructed.

The minister also told the conference he was “appalled” at the levels of homelessness across the UK and called on local authorities “to build a new generation of council homes”.

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