This document details the LGA's response to the Government's announcements on housing and growth, stressing that the key barrier to home building is access to finance and not the planning system which is in fact taking an overwhelmingly positive approach to economic growth.
Response to Government housing and growth announcement (PDF, 6 pages, 61KB)
See also
Councils' record planning permissions create a 400,000 new home building backlog
(media release 6 September)
3 October 2012