Labour councils have welcomed their party's pledge to work with local authorities to 'get Britain building". In his keynote speech to Labour's annual conference, leader Ed Miliband said the country had a 'housing crisis' and tore into developers that hang onto land hoping for the price to rise - a practice known as landbanking. Speaking to the conference in Brighton, Mr Miliband said: 'We'll say to private developers we can't just sit on land: either use the land or lose the land, that is what the next Labour Government will do.' Earlier, shadow secretary for communities and local government, Hilary Benn, announced that Labour would make property developers register the land they control.
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