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Image copy The way the government intends to pay for its plans to allow social tenants in England to buy their homes is "extremely questionable", MPs say The Commons Communities Committee criticised the funding model for the right-to-buy scheme, which will see housing associations reimbursed for selling homes to tenants at discounts. Right to Buy: Can you afford it? 7MPs say it should be paid for directly rather than via council house sales. Ministers say it will help create a million new homeowners by 2020. The government says it is one of a number of measures that will see 400,000 new affordable homes built by 2020-21. The extension of the longstanding right-to-buy scheme for council-house owners to housing association tenants in England was one of the Conservatives' main manifesto pledges at last year's election. Under the voluntary scheme, which is currently being piloted in five areas, housing associations will be expected to sell properties to ...

Fawley Power Station's 198-metre chimney is a prominent feature was shut down in 2013 More than 1,000 homes could be built on the site of a disused power station site near Southampton following its sale to a developer. Land Registry documents show London-based Long Harbour bought the 300-acre Fawley Power Station site for £25m. The financial group said it planned to build homes and a marina on the site on the edge of the New Forest. Fawley Power Station, Southampton, by air The oil-fired power station was decommissioned in 2013 after operating for more than 40 years. A Long Harbour statement said: "Working with Fawley Waterside Management Company, Long Harbour has begun works towards achieving outline planning consent for a mixed-use development including over 1,000 residential units, commercial space and an active leisure marina." Fawley Power Station 1971 Commissioned on the western shore of Southampton Water 2,000  megawatt oil-fired p...