ECONOMIC GROWTH

MJ Housing: Building communities as well as homes

With £16bn to spend and 9,000 hectares of land, Homes England has a new strategic plan and a mission to work with councils to deliver affordable homes, says Peter Denton.

Our new five-year strategic plan confirms our expanded remit: we'll continue to help deliver the high quality, affordable homes people need, but we will also work with partners to support the creation, development and continued wellbeing of communities in England.

It recognises that creating a home someone is proud to live in is about more than the building, however high quality it may be, and it puts the emphasis on place-making and community. This means it is as much about mixed-use regeneration as it is housing. And more than anything, it's about the people and communities that use these spaces.

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