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| Minister unveiling housing plans | Minister unveiling housing plans |
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| Housing Minister Yvette Cooper is unveiling the government's plans to build three million new homes by 2020. | Housing Minister Yvette Cooper is unveiling the government's plans to build three million new homes by 2020. |
| She invited bids for five new "eco towns" and said, from 2016, all new homes would have to be "zero carbon". | She invited bids for five new "eco towns" and said, from 2016, all new homes would have to be "zero carbon". |
| Strict protection for the Green Belt would not be changed but there would be work across government to find more brownfield sites. | Strict protection for the Green Belt would not be changed but there would be work across government to find more brownfield sites. |
| She had earlier said some new homes would be built on flood plains, subject to appropriate flood defences. | |
| In a statement on the Housing Green Paper, she said it was unfair that so many first time buyers had to rely on financial help from family and friends. | In a statement on the Housing Green Paper, she said it was unfair that so many first time buyers had to rely on financial help from family and friends. |
| Growth points | Growth points |
| She said two million of the three million new homes would be built by 2016, but she said there must be no return to the mistakes of the 1960s, when "quality was sacrificed in the name of speed". | She said two million of the three million new homes would be built by 2016, but she said there must be no return to the mistakes of the 1960s, when "quality was sacrificed in the name of speed". |
| New homes would be built in the north as well as the south, and 45 councils have already come forward with proposals for sites for new "growth points" - sites where new homes will be built. | New homes would be built in the north as well as the south, and 45 councils have already come forward with proposals for sites for new "growth points" - sites where new homes will be built. |
| She said the Ministry of Defence had already put forward six brownfield sites, with the potential to build 7,000 new homes. | She said the Ministry of Defence had already put forward six brownfield sites, with the potential to build 7,000 new homes. |
| Earlier Ms Cooper said the government would continue to build houses on flood plains as long as the "proper defences" are in place. | Earlier Ms Cooper said the government would continue to build houses on flood plains as long as the "proper defences" are in place. |
| The Tories say it will put more homes at risk, following extensive flooding in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. | The Tories say it will put more homes at risk, following extensive flooding in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. |
| Ms Cooper said house building critics were "playing politics" with floods. | Ms Cooper said house building critics were "playing politics" with floods. |
| She told the BBC: "We've introduced very tough rules now to clamp down on house-building in very high flood risk areas." | She told the BBC: "We've introduced very tough rules now to clamp down on house-building in very high flood risk areas." |
| "Those are tougher than they've ever been." | "Those are tougher than they've ever been." |
| But she told the BBC that homes could still be built on flood plains: "I think the only thing we are saying is obviously you can't rule out new housing being built somewhere like the city of York which is in a flood plain. | But she told the BBC that homes could still be built on flood plains: "I think the only thing we are saying is obviously you can't rule out new housing being built somewhere like the city of York which is in a flood plain. |
| "You know, it was built by the Romans in a flood plain. Downing Street - 10 Downing Street is in a flood plain. So if you've proper protection and if you've got proper defences in place, you know new homes have to be safe." | "You know, it was built by the Romans in a flood plain. Downing Street - 10 Downing Street is in a flood plain. So if you've proper protection and if you've got proper defences in place, you know new homes have to be safe." |