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More people than ever before are being given the opportunity to own their own homes, the government has said.
And to go with the latest round of fanfare the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced that three ex-NHS sites will be used to provide low-cost houses in a bid to help first-time buyers.
The sites are all on former National Health Service land at Renny Lodge, Newport Pagnell; Park Prewett, Basingstoke and Laybourne Grange, Maidstone. The sites will be used to provide land for the government's competition to build homes for £60,000 each.
Further sites, and the names of the bidders for the Design for Manufacture competition who will go through to the next round of the competition, will be announced next week.
The three sites will provide 400 homes but the government has bought another 100 ex-NHS sites for the plan, where buyers only pay the construction costs, Mr Prescott and Mr Brown confirmed yesterday.
The two were visiting homeowners in the Isokon building in Camden, London, a new restoration of a building whose residents formerly included Agatha Christie. The homeowners there have purchased their homes with the help of a shared ownership scheme.
Another 700 vacant sites, including land owned by the Ministry of Defence and public sector sites next to railway stations in London, were also being looked at, Mr Prescott said.
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