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| Leaseholds | - Cap ground rents at £250, reducing them to peppercorn over time
- Require continuation of developer-funded remediation programmes in mid- and high-rise buildings
| - Abolish leaseholds and make commonhold the default tenure in flats
- End ‘unregulated and unaffordable’ ground rent charges
- Review leaseholder protections and accelerate remediation programme, funded by ‘those responsible’
| - Abolish residential leaseholds
- Cap ground rents to a nominal fee
- Remove dangerous cladding and protect leaseholders from paying for it
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| Development | - Raise density levels in inner London; regenerate major sites like Euston, Old Oak Common and Thamesmead
- Create locally-led urban development corporations with the private sector; support delivery of new quarters in Leeds, Liverpool and York
- Consider extending full-expensing to brownfield housing delivery
- Require councils to set aside land for SMEs
- Scrap Section 106 ‘on more smaller sites’
- Require Infrastructure Levy to be used to deliver necessary infrastructure to support new homes
| - Brownfield-first approach, fast-tracking approval of urban brownfield sites
- A ‘new generation of new towns’ across England
- Reform compulsory purchase compensation rules to ensure landowners are awarded ‘fair compensation’ rather than values based on the prospect of planning permission
- Support for councils and housing associations to ‘build to their capacity’ and deliver more affordable housing
- Prioritise new social rented homes
| - Build 10 new garden cities
- Allow councils to buy land for housing based on current use value through reform of Land Compensation Act 1961
- Encourage use of rural exception sites to expand rural housing
- Encourage brownfield development with financial incentives, ensuring affordable housing is included
- Introduce ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ planning permission
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| Planning | - Fast-track planning for new homes on previously developed land in 20 largest cities
- ‘Strong design codes’ to encourage gentle densification
- Simplify planning process for self-builds
| - Housing targets to be made mandatory
- Strengthen presumption in favour of sustainable development
- Fund additional planning officers
- Require all combined and mayoral authorities to strategically plan for housing growth in their areas; new planning powers to be given to combined authorities
- Strengthen obligations to deliver more affordable housing in new developments
| - Expand Neighourhood Planning across England
- ‘Properly fund’ local planning departments
- Allow local authorities to set their own fees, ensuring that housing is not built in high flood risk areas without mitigation
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| Green belt | Protect Green Belt and never require councils to remove Green Belt protections | - Preserve green belt in general
- Release lower quality ‘grey belt’ land for housebuilding
| Identify a new ‘Wild Belt’ ‘for nature’s recovery’ |
| Homeownership | - Make permanent the £425,000 first-time buyer Stamp Duty threshold, introduced in 2022
- New Help to Buy scheme, offering an equity loan of up to 20% to first-time buyers; to be part-funded by contributions from housebuilders
- Continue Mortgage Guarantee Scheme
- Preserve Right to Buy
| - Give first-time buyers priority when buying a home
- Make Mortgage Guarantee Scheme permanent for first-time buyers
- Review Right to Buy discounts introduced in 2012
| - Introduce a ‘Rent to Own’ model for social housing, where rent payments give tenants an increasing stake in their property, owning it outright after 30 years
- Give local authorities the power to end Right to Buy
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| Other pledges | - Renew Affordable Homes Programme
- Introduce ‘Local Connection’/’UK Connection’ test for social housing in England
- Two-year Capital Gains Tax relief for landlords who sell to tenants
- End rough sleeping through the Local Authority Housing Fund; review quality of temporary accommodation
- Ensure councils have powers to manage ‘uncontrolled growth of holiday lets’, as previously announced
| - Increase to stamp duty surcharge paid by non-UK residents
- Update Affordable Homes Programme to unlock more homes from existing funding
| - End rough sleeping and scrap Vagrancy Act
- Invest in skills, training and new technologies (such as modular housing) in the construction sector
- Ensure councils have powers to control second homes and short-term lets in their areas
- Social renter protection, including ‘clear standards’ for socially rented homes and fully recognising tenant panels to give renters a voice in landlord governance
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