Housing minister Matthew Pennycook told The i Paper new planning rules will “fast-track” the delivery of new towns and transport links connecting them with existing infrastructure.
Development corporations were created in the 1940s to deliver post-war housing and new towns, including Telford and Milton Keynes.
Ahead of outlining the planning changes in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill in Parliament tomorrow, Pennycook added the new development corporations will be “empowered to meet the country’s housing and infrastructure needs”.
Private housebuilders welcomed the announcement. Steve Turner, executive director of the Home Builders Federation, said it was “essential” to have “an effective central body with the necessary powers to push through the planning and delivery of new towns.”
Rhys Moore, executive director of public impact for the National Housing Federation – the trade body for housing associations – Rhys Moore, said: “We know there’s an ambition for 40 per cent of new towns to be affordable, and social housing must be at the heart of these plans.
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Labour hopes that strengthening powers for their new development corporations can help them hit their ambitious target of building 1.5 million new homes over the next five years.
A development corporation was also used as part of the Thames Gateway regeneration project. In that case, an analysis conducted by lobbying firm Public First found that more than double the number of homes were given planning permission than would have been granted without the creation of the body.
Pennycook previously told The i Paper that development corporations will also have new powers to compulsorily purchase land which is currently privately owned for development if it is in the public interest.
After repeatedly rejecting its own local plan, South Tyneside Council was ordered to submit its housebuilding plan to the Government by 16 March. This includes a scheme to build 1,200 new homes on green belt land in Fellgate.
Pennycook said: “Our Planning and Infrastructure Bill will empower development corporations by equipping them with the planning and delivery tools necessary to co-ordinate and deliver well-designed, sustainable and economically successful places.”
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