Industry broadly welcomes Starmer’s housebuilding plan

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Labour’s plan to reform planning and build new towns draws positive response

Housing and construction bodies have broadly welcomed Keir Starmer’s plan to build the “next generation of new towns”

The Labour leader, in a speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool this afternoon, pledged to get Britain’s future back” by building 1.5 million homes over the next five years, “bulldozing” the planning system and constructing a wave of new towns across England.

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