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Sherwood goes South

Burham Beaches in Buckinghamshire and the New Forest doubled up as Sherwood Forest in the 1991 film Robin Hood

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New Growth Points

The New Growth Points initiative articulates a partnership between central government and local partners with the aim of increasing the housing supply in a sustainable way, in line with existing regional spatial strategies.

What's happened so far:

  •  As a result of the Barker Review of Housing Supply, the New Growth Points initiative announced in Dec 2005
  • The Government invited local authorities to submit sustainable growth proposals which would be assessed by certain criteria
  • 29 places supported as New Growth Points accepted, to share 40 million in funding for 2007/08
  • The terms of the partnership between central government and local partners is set out in a Written Ministerial Statement made to Parliament by Yvette Cooper on 24 October 2006.

Click here for information on New Growth Points in the South East