Two London neighbourhoods are getting nearly 4,000 new homes

Six sites in England, including four in and near London, have been added to the New Homes Accelerator to speed up housing delivery by giving councils extra planning capacity, removing regulatory hurdles, and cutting red tape. Wisley Airfield and Hampden Fields together are expected to yield about 4,700 homes. Billet Road in Redbridge promises 1,341 homes, a community hub, tree-lined streets, public open spaces and mainly low- to mid-rise buildings with a few eight-storey landmarks. High Road West in Tottenham has planning permission for just over 2,600 homes, with 40 percent designated as affordable, plus a library, learning centre, park and civic square.

Building new homes takes a long, long time. Often, developments get stuck in the planning system for years and years before they finally start construction, and that means housing isn't getting built fast enough to keep up with demand. But the government has come up with a scheme that it hopes will solve that. Two London neighbourhoods are among six sites in England that have just been added to the government's New Homes Accelerator programme.

It gives councils extra planning capacity, removes regulatory hurdles and cuts red tape for developments that have been stalled, meaning that they can build new homes faster. Two neighbourhoods close to the city have been added to the programme as well as two inside London itself. The former are Wisley Airfield in Guildford and Hampden Fields, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, which together are expected to create roughly 4,700 new homes.

Read at Time Out London