Labour's plans to build three million new homes by 2020 have been scrapped.
Gordon Brown announced plans shortly after becoming Prime Minister in July 2007 to build three million new homes by 2020 in a bid to stimulate new house building.
However the Government said yesterday that "the reality is that construction has slowed down so much the country is facing the lowest peacetime housebuilding rates since 1924".
Mr Pickles said he was "hammering another nail in the coffin of unwanted and an unaccountable regional bureaucracy".
"Communities will no longer have to endure the previous Government's failed Soviet tractor-style top-down planning targets. They were terrible, expensive, time-consuming ways to impose house building and worst of all threatened the destruction of the Green Belt.
"They were a national disaster that robbed local people of their democratic voice, alienating them and entrenching opposition against new development."
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