Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has promised that the Conservative Party would become a “nation of housebuilders” if it won the next election.
Mr Shapps, talking at the Conservative Party conference, said a Conservative government would grant villages powers to expand by up to 10% over 10 years.
Local housing trusts would enable rural areas to use local democracy to build the homes they need for local families and to support local services.
Mr Shapps said local communities would be rewarded for building homes by a scheme which matched pound-for-pound the extra money the areas gets through council tax for six years.
A Conservative government would also ditch current housing targets, which it called undeliverable, as well as Home Information Packs.
