Cameron to scrap affordable homes for rent requirement

He hopes that the move will unblock United Kingdom housebuilding by sweeping away demands that developers should provide a certain amount of affordable housing to rent as part of new developments.

Prime minister David Cameron announced he will change housing policy so developers must build homes for purchase not rent.

“But in a few madrassas, we’ve got children being taught that they shouldn’t mix with people of other religions; being beaten; swallowing conspiracy theories about Jewish people”, the Conservative party leader told his party delegates.

“That’s why I’m going to fight hard in this renegotiation – so we can get a better deal and the best of both worlds”, Cameron said.

He will also say banks need to lend and the government needs to release land. He said he would be ” heartbroken” if “people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them”.

A source close to Corbyn said the Labour leader would not be responding personally to Cameron’s comments.

“Over the next five years we will show that the deep problems in our society; they’re not inevitable”.

Under existing rules, affordable housing must be available at 20 per cent below the market rent. “This is a welcome sign that many rank-and-file Labour supporters want to keep us focused on the immediate concerns of the public rather than re-running old battles that risk splitting Labour apart”, he said.

Mr Cameron will promise an overhaul of Whitehall and town hall planning rules which he says prevent house builders from offering low cost, affordable home ownership.

In his conference speech today, Cameron set out “a home owning revolution” to ensure young people are able to buy their own homes. These associations would then voluntarily agree to sell their homes to any tenants who want to buy them.

On his potential legacy, Mr Cameron will claim the Tories can make his 10 years in power “a defining decade for our country… the turnaround decade and one which people will look back on and say: “That’s the time when the tide turned”.

“Under the Prime Minister’s plans, only 200,000 relatively well-off households will get to buy a home”.

“If David Cameron prioritised building social housing instead, he would finally begin to fix the affordability crisis”.

And he said he would stand up for the British values of “freedom, democracy and equality”, telling activists at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester that he wanted to see “less Britain-bashing, more national pride”.