He added that increased house building could not be supported without innovative transport schemes.
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The awards seek to recognise and reward excellence and innovation in house building, master-planning, and housing design in Scotland.
These would include a new house building programme, bringing back the 10p tax rate and reforming the banking system.
The Department for Communities and Local Government says it is "putting local communities themselves in control" of house building.
The forums on 17 and 18 July will be held at the zoo's Cedar House building on Caughall Road, Upton.
When costs go up, they predict, the element of house building that ends up suffering are those less expensive affordable homes.
Housing Minister Caroline Flint said communities often opposed house building in their areas, which was contributing to the lack of supply.
"The council has already got propositions to build at least 600 houses that will add towards our house building, " he said.
If the aesthetics of house design can be improved then a vicious circle currently depressing our house building behaviour can be disrupted.
The plan is the latest push to reduce opposition to house building.
Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps said no previous government had a worse record of affordable house building than "this fag-end Labour administration".
An announcement is expected soon on a plan to increase house building.
The post-war slum clearance programmes and the government inspired boom in council house building provided new homes to rent for millions of families.
Cotswold District Council has announced it intends to seek a judicial review of the government's decision to allow "extensive house building" in Tetbury.
The loft insulation clearly failed building regulations but the house had been passed by Angus Council and the House Building guarantors the NHBC.
He said house building was at about 20% the rate that it was 12 months ago, making it "extremely difficult" to hit the targets.
Much of the US house building industry, however, is now dominated by large-scale builders, such as Toll Brothers or DR Horton, which are listed companies.
The government last week relaxed planning rules to boost house building.
Stronger sales are now feeding through into new house building: housing starts rose by 12% in the year to June, the first growth in 12 months.
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On Newsnight Mr Boles says that the failure to increase the rate of house building is, in his opinion, "the biggest social justice crisis we have".
The construction industry is heavily reliant on house building and repairs, along with the government's capital investment programme, particularly in water infrastructure, roads, education and health.
Belgian green MEP Isabelle Durant criticised the amount of house building going on Europe, saying that this was reducing the permeability of soil, leading to increased flooding.
Every office in the White House, not just in the actual White House building, but in the executive building, everyone has chipped in and stepped up beyond belief.
"New household formation is currently out-stripping new house building - it has been for some time but is doing so to a greater extent now, " Mr Boulger says.
The government's capital expenditure plans, packaged as the Investment Strategy, have largely been maintained but not on a scale that could compensate for the fall in house building.
Government, regulators and the water industry were urged to make concrete plans for new supply networks in advance of house building, to ensure there are adequate water resources for the future.
Mr Gardner reminds us that the growth of the population has been far outstripping the hopelessly inadequate level of new house building, while the number of people in employment has been rising.
The prospect of an interest free loan covering 20% of the cost of a 'newly built home' - as the chancellor described it - could stimulate house building and provide far more starter homes.
Mr Boles explains the incentive could see groups such as parish councils and residents groups up and down the country receive hundreds of thousands of pounds should they support proposals for more house building.
Labour said the government was wrong to say the current planning system was broken, dismissing as "utter nonsense" claims that the system was to blame for zero growth and a collapse in house building.
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