Rayner tells councils to find sites for new homes push

Councils across England have been ordered to review their house building plans and bring forward fresh bids for billions of pounds of still-unallocated affordable housing funding.
Housing secretary Angela Rayner and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have written to every council leader demanding authorities “scale up now” as the Government seeks to deliver the biggest council house building programme since the early 1980s.
Councils are being asked to review plans for increasing coun