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I've just been listening to an address by Shadow Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, and heard what the Tories plan for housing should they win the next election.

Unsurprisingly they have hailed central planning as a failure - with fewer homes being built now than at any time since the Second World War, and not just because of the recession. Targets have failed to deliver new homes (I worked out from NHBC figures that only around 25,000 detached houses and bungalows will be completed in 2009 across the whole of Great Britain, with three fifths created by self-builders).