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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Five-day timber homes 'could help Labour hit 1.5m housing target'

Timber home structures that can be erected in as few as five days could help turbocharge Britain’s house building, senior Labour politicians have heard.

Increasing the use of structural timber could help alleviate the country’s housing crisis, which is particularly acute in London and the southeast, it has been claimed.

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