{"id":67034,"date":"2019-11-08T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=67034"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:53:52","slug":"housebuilding-must-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housebuilding-must-priority\/67034\/","title":{"rendered":"Housebuilding must be a priority, says FMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The urgent need to build more homes for everyone should be a key priority for all the political parties during the General Election campaign, says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmb.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federation of Master Builders<\/a> (FMB)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The FMB is calling on all the political parties to make housebuilding a national infrastructure priority, along with 11 other key policy areas in its \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmb.org.uk\/media\/50547\/fmb-programme-for-government-2019-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Programme for Government<\/a>\u2019 published today. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The programme calls for the political parties to commit to the following:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Housing<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Make housebuilding a national infrastructure priority and build 1.5 million new homes <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Free up more public land for housing and break it up into small plots for small builders<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Invest in local authority planning departments to speed up the planning process <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Skills <\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Promote vocational education and invest in Further Education <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reform the UK Apprenticeship Levy so it works better for small companies<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Introduce a fair and balanced post-Brexit immigration system <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Quality <\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Licence all UK construction companies<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Introduce mandatory warranties for building control-approved work<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Create a new \u2018General Builder\u2019 qualification <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Net Zero Carbon<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Create a National Retrofit Strategy <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Invest in upskilling builders to build and upgrade homes fit for the future<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cut VAT on home improvement work to 5% <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Brian Berry, chief executive of the FMB, said: \u201cIn this Brexit election the main political parties mustn\u2019t lose sight of the big issues facing the UK such as the current housing crisis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are still not building enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?s=new+homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new homes<\/a>, and this has led to an affordability crisis and over-crowding. This election is an opportunity for all parties to publish ambitious plans to turn this situation around. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSmall builders stand ready to help the new Government not only to build more new homes but also make our existing homes more energy efficient.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cSmall building companies will also be instrumental in helping the future government tackle other major challenges facing the UK, from helping to tackle the climate crisis to helping to building the hospitals and schools of the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur Programme for Government gives 12 clear policies for each of the political parties to adopt to support SME builders. Politicians must not only give the country the gift of resolving Brexit this Christmas, but also a vision for the future of our built environment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The urgent need to build more homes for everyone should be a key priority for all the political parties during the General Election campaign, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,591,430,720,276,572,571,656,579,952,621],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-federation-of-master-builders","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-housebuilding","13":"tag-housing-crisis","14":"tag-housing","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-planning","17":"tag-sme"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Housebuilding must be a priority, says FMB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The urgent need to build more homes for everyone should be a key priority for all the political parties during the General Election campaign, says the FMB\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housebuilding-must-priority\/67034\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Housebuilding must be a priority, says FMB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The urgent need to build more homes for everyone should be a key priority for all the political parties during the General Election campaign, says the FMB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housebuilding-must-priority\/67034\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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