David Prescott was right now unveiling moves to be able to speed up considerably the supply involving new homes instructions while vowing to protect the green belt from development.

Typically the Deputy Prime Minister, in a key talk, was outlining how the extra large numbers allocated by Chancellor Gordon Brown can be used in order to tackle the real estate crisis.

But he or she must also explain how he may avoid creating dormitory cities across the South-East, with critics currently concerned at the particular apparent lack of funding for brand spanking new school choices, roads and private hospitals.

Mr Prescott's department yesterday won a great extra �1. three or more billion for the next 3 years, which means it will get spending �7. a couple of billion a yr on housing around the UK simply by 2007.

This offers it the financial clout to subsidise private developers in order to build the 2 hundred, 000 homes that have been reserved in four "growth areas" in the particular South-East - typically the Thames Gateway, Milton Keynes, the Stansted airport departures