Gordon Brown's scheme proposes thousands of low-cost homes - Times Online
Gordon Brown's scheme proposes thousands of low-cost homes - Times Online Thousands of low-cost homes for local people are being planned in what would be the biggest building programme in the countryside for a generation. The new homes are proposed as part of a review ordered by Gordon Brown. Under the scheme, dozens of market towns would have communities built next to them large enough to sustain their own shops, pubs and even schools. Planning rules would be also be changed to remove restrictions and allow residences for lower-income families to be built. The proposals are an attempt to boost affordable homes in rural areas and find sites for Mr Brown’s target of three million extra homes by 2020. The houses would enable teachers, farm workers or craftsmen living or working in villages, who have been unable to get on the property ladder after years of rising house prices, to own a home for the first time. But they are likely to meet opposition from some countryside campaigners an