Keir Starmer has warned local leaders not to hesitate to put them in charge if they try to approve “hits” on new homes, amid growing concerns among wildlife groups and councils about their plans. housing revolution.
The prime minister gave a pledge to build 1.5m new homes in England by election to the plans of his heart’s government.
Senior figures in his team are now focused on trying to deliver tangible improvements to the country to create a credible chance for re-election. They also want to show what they are assuming, what they see, as they build opposite interests.
Ministers are vowing this week to pass council rules as part of a government pledge to give mayors and local leaders more power in the process.
Speaking to NoticeHowever, the prime minister said more powers meant “more responsibilities” and would not allow local leaders to block his building overhaul.
“With our reforms, we are pushing the power back into communities so they can build their own futures and make their own decisions about them,” he said. “With our new rules, councilors will have the authority to make decisions that boost and build local growth, so communities can shape their future.
“But where local leaders play their responsibilities to decide where and how homes are built, and recklessly block developments that provide good homes, we’re not afraid to step in. More power, more responsibilities.”
Starmer said to come in his casechange strategy“A speech last week in which his team tried to sharpen the government’s agenda into more clear targets to focus attention on in Whitehall.
He also mocked the scheme that led to HS2 being the fastest network he had £100m more than deposited for shelter to protect bats.
But his comments came amid concerns from local councils across the board of Englandeven the labor-run administrations, which are not realistic with the objectives of housing the targets imposed on them.
The Labour-run Broxtowe council in Nottinghamshire described the plan as “very challenging, if not achievable”. Another Labor councilor in South Tyneside said the plans were “totally unrealistic”.
Meanwhile, letters to Starmer have been signed by nature including the wildlife conservation charity RSPB, the National Trust, the Wildlife Trust and Greenpeace He warns that they are “dismayed and disappointed to hear your attack on environmental and regulatory statutes.”
“Environmental regulation plays a vital role in vital wildlife, dealing with pollution and ensuring a healthy environment for everyone, not just a privilege for those who can afford it,” the letter states. “The rules can be improved, but they are not the problem.
“Regulators who are taking on the rules have been held back by a decade of cuts and political obstruction. They should be supported, not blamed. We want to work with you to expedite the project. We need ambitious reform so that the planning system works better for nature as well. But deregulation is not the answer.
Starmer, however, insisted that it was necessary to “prepare some laws” to attack.
“We will build this nation from the ground up, but we cannot do it without reform,” he said. “This policy is mine. Starting with sweeping changes to the national policy framework, which will begin to remove obstacles to this government’s goal of building 1.5m homes in this parliament. This is an ambitious goal, and we can’t let anything slow us down.
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“It is common sense – if we want good houses, loads and energy supplies, we have to build them. It is not otherwise. Anyone willing to help find practical, workable solutions and reforms – we work in partnership with you.
“But the government is not afraid to take advantage of the clothing and break down the barriers to action as long as people pay the price. This is the end of the “can’t happen” culture that has held Britain back for too long.”
Senior Labor figures and MPs are desperate for Starmer to learn lessons Kamala Harris’s failed US presidential campaign A party manager focuses on a small number of issues that they believe will make a real difference to people’s lives.
Writing in Notice Today, Deborah Mattinson, the head of the former policy, warns that Donald Trump Harris was successfully portrayed because we focused too much on the issues of “awakening” and the touch of voters. “It is the thinking of a new Labor administration,” Mattinson writes in an article co-written with former prime minister Claire Ainsley’s strategy.
“Labor must continue to change its powerful message in government, reflecting the anti-establishment style that now exists on both sides of the Atlantic. It is prepared – even enthusiastic – about old, tired institutions, disrupting rather than defending them.
“That work started last week when the ‘Starmer change plan’ was launched, with its effectiveness in getting people to work better, but much remains to be done.