Home-builders to get access to cheap public land

Housing minister Grant Shapps is to announce that housing self-builders could get cheap access to public land in order to create their dream home, in a move to help tackle the housing crisis.

In a speech to the Grand Designs show today Shapps is expected to say that self-builders, who build nearly a fifth of the homes in the country, can get access to public land under the 鈥渂uild now, pay later鈥� principle announced in the Budget.

According to the Observer, Shapps will say: 鈥淪elf-builders deliver affordable, greener and more innovatively designed homes, and make a big contribution to the number of new homes built in this country, yet there is scope to significantly increase the number of self-built homes in the UK - both for individual households and for community-driven projects.鈥�

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