Budget 2014: Measures to get Britain building says Chancellor

BRITAIN needs to build more, Chancellor George Osborne said in his Budget announcement today.

To boost house building, he announced half a billion pounds of finance to small house building firms and extended the Help to Buy scheme for the rest of the decade in a bid to create 120,000 new homes.

Dave Sheridan, CEO of house builder Keepmoat, said: “Help to Buy has created a welcome stimulus to housing and made a positive economic impact on communities around the country by encouraging home ownership. As ... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...