{"id":54000,"date":"2019-03-14T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=54000"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:16:54","slug":"failure-starter-homes-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/failure-starter-homes-scheme\/54000\/","title":{"rendered":"NFB &#8220;not surprised&#8221; by failure of starter homes scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As Kit Malthouse admits that the government will fail to keep its promise of building 200,000 &#8216;starter homes&#8217;, the National Federation of Builders (NFB) has said it is not surprised by the scheme&#8217;s failure<\/h2>\n<p>In 2016 the Government allocated \u00a31.2bn to the \u2018starter homes\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk\/en\/articles\/help-to-buy-homebuy-and-other-housing-schemes#starter-home-scheme\">programme<\/a>, which aimed to build 200,000 properties exclusively for first-time buyers at a 20% discount on their market value.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.builders.org.uk\/home\/\">National Federation of Builders<\/a> (NFB)\u00a0has said it is &#8220;not entirely surprised at the failure of the starter homes programme&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement,\u00a0NFB commented: &#8220;Since its inception in 2015, we have asked ministers and civil servants how we can deliver homes under this scheme, but we have not received any response or support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When asked how many starter homes had been build since 2016, the housing minister stated: &#8216;At the moment, none&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lack of transparency remains worrying and feeds into wider concerns that developers have with the Government and local authorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/starter-homes-begin-construction\/29492\/\">The scheme<\/a> has failed to build any homes in four years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.builders.org.uk\/the-nfb\/speaker-profiles\/\">Richard Beresford<\/a>, chief executive of the NFB, said: \u201cThis is bad news for the UK\u2019s housing market and exposes the poor level of trust in relations between the Government and SME house builders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Government must rethink how it should work with the wider industry, and not just a few volume house builders. It must figure out whether it really wants to build affordable homes or just win plaudits for acknowledging the problem and appearing to try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.builders.org.uk\/the-nfb\/speaker-profiles\/\">Rico Wojtulewicz<\/a>, head of housing and planning policy for the House Builders Association (HBA), said: \u201cThe Government has let SMEs down by promising a scheme that we were best suited to deliver but never engaging with us to deliver it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As refreshing as Malthouse\u2019s honesty is, it comes too late particularly as starter homes were included in the most recent revision to planning policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse builders are doing everything in their power to fix the housing crisis. 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