Housing quango Homes England spent £175m buying sites for more than 7,400 homes in the last financial year, according to the agency’s new chair, Peter Freeman.

The agency has taken on more than 400 hectares of land on 17 separate sites, including major developments such as a 2,160-home sustainable urban extension outside Sutton Coldfield and the 1,200-home Attleborough scheme in Norfolk.

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