The Deputy Prime Minister has said that “delivering social and affordable houses at scale” is her “number one priority”
Angela Rayner will unveil an overhaul of planning rules next week as Labour seeks to clear a path to building 1.5m homes in five years.
The overhaul, to be announced before MPs leave for summer recess, will include bringing back mandatory housing targets that were scrapped by the previous Government and introducing “golden rules” to ensure development works for local people and protects nature, Ms Rayner said.“We plan to set out in detail more of these early and important changes in an updated National Planning Policy Framework next week,” Ms Rayner wrote.
The Chancellor will outline the spending inheritance left by the Tories when she presents the results of a Treasury audit to Parliament on Monday . A government spokesperson said the audit had shown “the previous government made significant funding commitments for this financial year without knowing where the money would come from”.
The Chancellor is expected to approve above-inflation pay rises for millions of public sector workers in response to the recommendations of independent pay review bodies. Teachers and some 1.3m NHS staff could be in line for a 5.5 per cent pay boost, which could cost about £3.5bn more than had been budgeted for.
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