Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has said he wants to use the government planning reforms to break the dominance of the volume housebuilders and will put more money in to the planning system.

Answering questions following his keynote speech to the Create Streets annual conference, Jenrick said that he would only regard his reforms as successful if they managed to reduce the proportion of new homes produced by the major volume builders.

He also said that he recognised that the government’s planning reforms – which call for all local authorities to produce new local plans within two and a half years, compared to the usual seven – will require additional funding from the government.

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