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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Fiona Harvey in Liverpool

Labour wants to build 1.5m homes – but how green will they be?

Keir Starmer visiting a construction site in Sheffield in 2021.
Keir Starmer visiting a construction site in Sheffield in 2021. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Labour must ensure that the 1.5m new homes it plans to build are low-carbon, and are built on brownfield land, or risk further damaging the UK’s already precarious natural environment, experts have warned.

Keir Starmer made plans for new towns and a massive expansion of affordable housing one of the key planks of his appeal to the electorate in his speech to the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday.

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