Green light for council house building programme

Housing Minister John Healey today gave the green light for work to begin building over two thousand new council homes, that will help create over five thousand jobs in the construction industry.

Forty seven councils including Kirklees, will receive a share of £127million Government funding to help build these homes. They will match funding bringing total investment to over £250million. Construction will begin on the first sites before the end of the year and he will announce a second wave of projects in the autumn.

Eighty per cent of the new council homes announced today will be built to standards well above that required by building regulations helping to cut CO2 emissions and reduce energy bills for the families that live in them.

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