End of rabbit hutch developments

Ministers are set to announce A fresh government consultation is set to bring an end to many of Labour's needless measures forced upon house builders. As well as a new measure  recognising that rooms can't be too small.

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has blamed Labour’s density targets for condemning families to be “trapped in rabbit hutch homes”.

RICS figures show the average UK home has shrunk 40 per cent in 80 years.

The consultation proposes cutting the measures from 100 to 10.

Don Foster, Communities minister, said: “I’m proposing to cut needless red tape to let housebuilders get on with the real job of building the high quality new homes that people need, especially families and first time buyers.

Read more in the Telegraph

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