Barriers to house building: How serious are the challenges we face? Conservatives Conference 2015 all you need to know
Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP Minister for Housing UK Psychological barriers' stop old people from downsizing, says housing minister Brandon Lewis wanting property companies to build more attractive bungalows ,which would encourage pensioners to move out, of their empty family homes. Speaking at the conservative fringe meeting held in Manchester Home Marquee Sunday 4th October and Last Night “We need to find the product that makes my parents, my inlaws find a property that they want to move to. It has got to be a positive thing." By 2021 the number of households is on course to increase by 2.2million. Of that, 1.2million or 54 per cent will be households aged 65-years and over. However only 300 bungalows were built in England in 2009, the most recent figures show, and currently only two per cent of English homes are bungalows. Brandon Lewis MP has attacked town halls pushing to be able to hike council taxes. Brandon Lewis MP has attacked to...