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100,000 extra homes in 45 towns and cities

Housing minister Yvette Cooper has confirmed 45 towns and cities as designated growth points, saying they had the potential to deliver up to 100,000 extra new homes and thousands of jobs over the next ten years.

The successful bids, see list below, will share £40 million start-up funding.

The proposals will deliver a substantial number of new homes to help first time buyers onto the property ladder and enable towns and cities to grow their economies by creating new jobs and encouraging business development.

The successful bids put forward by over 70 local authorities with high housing demand contain a wide regional spread. The 45 growth points are spread across 29 places from Truro to Lincoln and include major cities like Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Birmingham and Bristol as well as large and small towns like Swindon, Reading and Ipswich, Grantham, Thetford and Maidstone.

These areas will share in the start up funding to support infrastructure, unlock sites for new housing and to assess and mitigate environmental impacts. This will make them more attractive for business investment and help young people who want to stay in their home town to find a home.

Yvette Cooper said: “Helping our towns and cities that want to grow can make substantial difference in delivering the new homes we need.”

“This gives local areas the chance to provide more jobs and homes with higher design and environmental standards too.”

The government says the new growth points will help to concentrate future growth at existing urban centres and present a significant opportunity for the new communities to become exemplars of sustainability by pioneering eco-development and encapsulating high design standards in parallel with meeting the housing needs of local communities.

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New Growth Point	Total number of homes proposed 2006- 2016	...Funding breakdown...		Total funding
		Capital projects	Studies and capacity support
East Midlands
'3 Cities & 3 Counties' – Derby, Leicester and Nottingham	81,500	£5.1m	£385,000	£5,485,000
Grantham	6,300	-	£60,000	£60,000
Lincoln	16,500	£200,000	£980,000	£1,180,000
Newark on Trent	6,000	-	£65,000	£65,000
East of England
Haven Gateway	22,850	£5.1m	£425,000	£5,525,000
Norwich	15,950	£1.5m	£500,000	£2,000,000
Breckland (Thetford)	7,600	-	£150,000	£150,000
West Midlands
Birmingham/Solihull	40,000	£3.66m	£560,000	£4,220,000
Coventry	9,000	-	£250,000	£250,000
Telford	13,000	-	£200,000	£200,000
East Staffordshire – Burton-upon-Trent	5,000	-	£310,000	£310,000
Hereford	8,500	-	£200,000	£200,000
Shrewsbury and Atcham	3,500	-	£200,000	£200,000
Worcester	3,800	-	£200,000	£200,000
South East
Basingstoke	9,650	-	£340,000	£340,000
Didcot – South Oxfordshire	5,000	£750,000	£285,000	£1,035,000
Maidstone	5,040	£1.5m	£50,000	£1,550,000
Oxford	5,692	£750,000	£415,000	£1,165,000
Partnership for Urban South Hampshire	40,425	£2.6m	£1.06m £3,665,000
Reading	7,000	£770,000	£455,000	£1,225,000
Reigate and Banstead	5,000	£1.6m	£374,000	£1,987,000
South West
Exeter and East Devon	9,250	£862,000	£100,000	£962,000
Plymouth	12,250	-	£960,000	£960,000
Poole	7,000	£625,000	£155,000	£780,000
Swindon	17,700	£2.85m	£300,000	£3,150,000
Taunton	6,600	-	£95,000	£95,000
Torbay	5,000	£500,000	£230,000	£730,000
Carrick (Truro)	5,000	£500,000	£410,000	£910,000
West of England Partnership	46,250	£1.1m	£155,000	£1,255,000
Capacity building fund for small towns				£1,000,000
Totals	426,357	£30m	£10.8m	£40,854,000

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