Giving Land

According to Planning Minister Nick Boles, young people who can’t afford to buy their own home should be given state owned plots of land so that they can build their own home on it.

The idea is still in the development stage of coalition policy and Mr Boles is giving it extra impetus by declaring that young Britons “want the opportunity to get on and help themselves”. House building is still at a very low level despite the fact that there’s been a rise in the last three months.

The coalition is very much aware that they need to assure the “generation rent” that they will, one day be able to buy or build and own their own home. The proposition that Boles is putting forward goes a little something like this: Instead of renting in the open market or applying for council housing, young people should be able to put themselves on the list for self-build and this list would run parallel with the council house waiting list.

Speaking about the moves to relax planning controls, Boles said: “A liberal planning policy is one in which you say to people, if you own a home and you want to do something reasonable to change it or extend it, you should be able to do so, without bureaucrats and politicians getting in the way, and that is something we have done.”

He added: “I think we might want to go even further … We should think about saying, if you can’t buy a home then you should be able to get a plot and to be able to build yourself a home if you want one – put yourself on the list for self-build.”

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