Responding to the DCLG announcement for incentives for local councils to accelerate the building of much needed new homes, HBF Executive Chairman, Stewart Baseley, has said: "We welcome the objective of the new Housing and Planning Delivery Grant. Ensuring that funding helps support those authorities that are positively addressing their housing requirements is a sound approach to making a difference to our national housing supply crisis. The land supply shortfall is a critical problem that needs to be overcome in the drive for more homes.

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He added: "The HBF believes it is important to work with the government towards the objective of 240,000 zero carbon homes a year from 2016. It is also vital that all other stakeholders are willing to work collaboratively to this end. Only then can this target be a possibility."

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