Jenrick makes MMC a condition of affordable homes spending

By Tom Lowe2020-10-07T05:00:00

Housing secretary says 20% of government funded homes must be built using modern methods of construction

At least one fifth of all homes planned through the government’s £12bn affordable homes programme will be built using modern methods of construction, the government has said.

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick said the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government had made the quota a condition of the programme and wanted modern methods of construction to be a “significant part” of the chancellor’s spending review, due to be published later this year.

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