My goodness, I really hope that 3 million houses do get built. Fly over the outskirts of London and there is tons of space. So-called 'concreting over' is a nonsense. I will vote for Brown if can make good on this promise. I am in my early 40's in London, and paying a small fortune in rent, but cannot afford a house. That is by far the most important thing for me right now, not tax breaks for family or pumping money into education or the NHS - it doesn't seem to do any good based on experience.

John Bentley, London,

The housing revolution needs to be stopped in its tracks. It will be an environment disaster. It's time people took to the streets before England is covered with concrete. This is greed and capitalism at its worse. I was 32 years old before I got on the housing ladder and even then had to find a partner to share the mortgage. That was back in 1990. My parents also were unable to afford a mortage until they were well into their 30s. All Brown is doing is pandering to the 'me, me,me' mentality . God help Britiain!!

Elaine , England, England

Sure, build more homes and make them affordable, but don't forget the infrastructure that is required to support them. Housing estates are already going up all over the place, but the police force, hospital and fire service that support them remains the same. Why nobody in government (previous and current) is able to forsee problems like this is beyond me; this country is in freefall as a result of an inane lack of perception.

Sam Nicholson, Basingstoke,

By 'killing off' the super casino, he has effected more people than he realises.
Arcetects, designers, salesmen.....the list continues.
It has been planned for months and months. Alot of time and money has been put into it just to have someone say 'stop, no supercasinos'.
What a waste

Holly Botenson, York,

I was originaly worried about this new bill, having recently bought a house, 3 millino new ones could cause me problems.

Then I remembered, in the last 10 years, labour have failed to accomplish any task they have set, and swamped the nation with immigration.

Dominic, Manchester, UK

The new houses being built in Peacehaven East Sussex are on green fields,for one thing the infrastructure in this area will not accomodate their needs,the schools are overflowing now also doctors will be flat out ,also our roads are not built for large housing estates . as for not allowing Historical Figures such as Churchill,Stalin,Hitler etc to be learnt ,is their right to know about our history,shame on you. Please bring our young men back from afghanistan, they are being killed in the name of America,the war was dreamed up by them and not us .sort Bush out

Zena Morgan, Peacehaven, Britain

Yet more of the same then, all the developments I have seen for the past 10 years have been:

25% Affordable, the nasty plots the developer would struggle to sell.
50% Reasonable housing, perfect for the Buy To Let market who force the prices above the first time buyers.
25% Top end, pure profit for the developers.

All of the above relased slowly to make sure the big housebuilders get maximum profit for their shareholders. If anyone thinks more housing will reduce prices they are living in cloud cuckoo land!

Steve, London,

Brown field site, now that's an interesting category. Did you know that thousands of acres of MOD land, untouched in centuries and home to rare fauna and flora is deemed 'brown field.' This is because it's used for military manoeuvres. But let's not forget that these areas are also open to the public when the red flag is not flying. So great swathes of countryside in places like Aldershot, Bagshot, Camberely, Deepcut, Ash and many other military training areas around the country are now all under threat.. I've no problem with 'genuine brown' field sites but for goodness sake let's not concrete over our countryside. People must make a stand otherwise what will be left for the next generation.

Elaine , England, England

Nimbyism is about selfish self interest in maintaining and increasing their property values, we have been under building for twenty years and I think Brown’s target of 240,000 probably won’t match demand. We must go even further and building more where ever it is needed. Brown and green field sites included. In the 50’s & 70’s we built 300,000 and over 400,000 in the 60’s did these old nimibes complain then? Pure evil and we are not over develop at 10%. Cameron may be in favour but the Tories will be dead against it. People on low wages used to buy council flats but now you need a super high one or two good salaries ridiculous.

Abdi, Ealing, Uk

Where are they being built?

Where are the builders, carpenters and plumbers coming from?

Unless the land is free how can they be any cheaper than other houses built today? Or are the construction workers also working for free?

There is a glut of flats around for people to live in at the moment so surely there won't be more to add to the current glut.

Colin, Northampton,

Who is going to build all these new homes? as our school leavers are no longer encouraged to take up a skill in the building trade.

Angela Harris, Isle of, Wight

So the government still hasn't realised that target-based mass production of this type results in the lowest bidder cutting every possible corner to maximise profit on a fixed-price deal. If you offer fixed-price, fixed-timescale projects, you get the result you deserve. The real question is, does the British public deserve this?

Back to the same old grandiose labour party scheming that brought us high-rise blocks and the bottomless pit of the NHS, then.

It's my money Gordon - hands off!

KR, Stockport,

I'm glad Brown is going back on the decision about supercasinos. They're hardly a step forward to social justice! It's just a shame Labour didn't do the same when they inherited the decision about the Millenium Dome.

anne, coventry, west midlands

The green belt should be reviewed. Is there any point in building new houses on sites just beyond green belt and then forcing people to drive through it into the cities to work? This is what is happening around places such as Cambridge. It would be far better to use parts of the green belt. All the green belt does is artificially benefit people that already own property within it or the cities it surrounds. By building beyond the green belt new and larger areas of countryside become blighted by noise pollution. No mention of improved public transport for these areas either, thus condemning them to be the future slums cut off from places of work. Brown's aim appears to be to gentrify existing urban areas and shove the poor into new satellite slums.

Ignore the poor planning and Brown is not being very ambitious. Should he achieve the new targets it will still take decades to catch up with the undersupply of homes during the last 10 years.

Steve, London, England

Building new homes will mean nothing if those could not be owned by the people in need. No matter how severe the housing problem is it could be eased if the Parliament is honest enough to pass ‘Public Interest’ laws restraining people owning many houses until each and every homeless person has a place of his/her own. No matter how many houses are built capitalists are doomed to make sure that their victims never have a place of their own to live

Vicitm, Lon don, Nazi

We are supposed to be a democracy where our Government is formed from MPs who represent their constituents. Government Ministers have had to resign in the past when their constituents failed to re-elect them as their representatives, e.g. Chris Patten.
Gordon Brown has admitted that he does not represent his constituents for matters which are the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament. During Prime Minister's Question Time, he admitted he is responsible only for matters which the Scotland Act, 1998, specified as the UK Parliament's responsibility. He therefore has legal and democratic authority only for these matters.
The limited authority of MPs elected in Scotland has been ignored since devolution but a PM determining policies such as housing, education, health, etc.,for which he neither represents nor is answerable to the people who voted him into office as MP, is now in danger of jeopardising the Union.

Denis Latimer, Barrow-in-Furness, UK

The leopard does not change its spots: Brown is simply seeking to outwardly appear new new labour. He was at the heart of the old Blair regime and is now seeking to distance himself from it. He says he will listen -that is rather uncharacteric of him- did he heed any advice when destroying the country's pension scheme regime?
The sooner Cameron can get him out the better.
As always there is much huff and puff, but I thought spin had been pushed to the back burner.

James, Sevenoaks, England

Tory Policy

No Casinos, but if there are put them in their town and now we have stopped them, beman not having them.

Matthew, Sacrament, CA

Having said how the Commons is going to be more significant in the democratic process he promptly ignores the vote on Supercasinos and announces that he has killed it off without telling anyone except (apparently) for a Blackpool MP he used to plant a question!

It's just more of the same contempt for the British people that he and Blair have practised for the last ten years and an abuse of what passes for democracy in Britain.

D Hardy, Manchester,

Gordon Brown is ethically cleansing the Labour Party.

Bob T, London, UK

The more houses that are built increases the potential for catastrophic flooding, particularly as many new developments are sited on flood plains. The Government should realize we are grossly overpopulated and should seek to stem the constant influx of migrants to this country.

R.B., Leicester,

Gordon has got it right on Housing.

Blair and before that Major and Thatchers policy of not allowing housing in the SE where the work is has been very effective in moving businesses from the SE to elsewhere, sadly nt to Liverpool, Scotland, Wales or Norhern ireland, but to Dussledorf, Kobe, Bejing, Timbuktoo. Evidence in the form of the success of Ford Dagenham, a brownfirld site now and pretty well all of manufacturing. I could barely afford a shoebox in Surrey so moved to California.
What Britain needs is Infrastructure so that we can prosper, not restictions to keep the nasty Countryside Aliance and the pious poisonous thinking CPRE.
Farming is a dead industry in England, so instead of subsidizing farmers for growing poor quality food <1%GDP. No one talked about preserving the lifestyle of Fishermen, miners, car workers etc.

Turn England into a country park so we all have counryside we can enjoy.

Build proper infrastructure. Make it happen Gordon

Matthew, Sacrament, CA

"Three million homes". What do you mean? He will buid three million affordable homes to his citizens or he will build homes that cost three million pounds to the rich, as we see all over the place in London?

Fabio C, London, UK