{"id":4003,"date":"2014-03-14T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adjacentgovernment.co.uk\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T10:19:55","slug":"government-raise-housing-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/government-raise-housing-standards\/4003\/","title":{"rendered":"Government announce plans to raise housing standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government plans will make it easier and cheaper<\/a> to build homes to high standard.<\/h2>\n

Currently house builders face a myriad of different standards to implement each time they build new homes in an area.<\/p>\n

Publishing the government\u2019s response to its housing standards review, the minister said the move would remove this confusion from the system.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s measure will reduce 100 standards to fewer than 10; bringing down the numbers of remaining pages of guidance from 1000 to fewer than 100.<\/p>\n

Communities Minister Stephen Williams<\/a> said: \u201cThe current system of housing standards is complicated and confusing and is ripe for reform.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re planning to make the whole system easier to understand and follow, consolidating housing standards so that all the requirements are in 1 place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will enable councils and developers to better work together to build high-quality, sustainable and secure homes in communities across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Housing standards that will be abolished include:<\/p>\n