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Thousands of new affordable homes are to be built by the UK government on public owned land in a bit to speed up its home building programme. In a pilot scheme on five sites in England, the government will ‘directly commission’ the building of up to 13,000 new homes, assuming responsibility for developing land instead of large building firms. Up to 40% of the homes are described as affordable starter homes on the sites at Old Oak Common, in north west London, former barracks in Dover, former Ministry of Defence land in Northstowe, Cambridgeshire, a former hospital site at Lower Graylingwell, in Chichester, and a MoD site at Daedelus Waterfront in Gosport. Prime Minister David Cameron said the move is a huge shift in government policy. ‘Nothing like this has been done on this scale in three decades, the government rolling its sleeves up and directly getting homes built,’ he added. The government will also announce a £1.2 billion fund to build 30,000 affordable starter homes on underused brownfield land in the next five years and the move will fast track the creation of at least 30,000 new starter homes by 2020. ‘Today's radical new approach will mean the government will directly commission small and up and coming companies to build thousands of new homes on sites right across the country,’ said Communities Secretary Greg Clark. ‘This, and the £1.2 billion new Starter Homes Fund, will help thousands of people to realise their dream of owning their own home,’ he added. Taylor Scott International
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