"Our goal is to build not just more homes, but better homes.
"The UK housebuilding industry is at the forefront, not only signing up to the target but coming up with the innovation to make this happen," she said.
Ten readers taking part in the poll will be chosen at random to attend the black-tie award dinner at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square on Friday, June 20, where the winning home will be announced by Ms Flint.
The winning architect will receive £5,000 from Mitsubishi Electric, which is putting its air/heat exchange technology into the house.
Click Here To View The Full ArticleIn this year's Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards, we challenged architects to design 'Tomorrow's Lifestyle Home': a standard house type with a minimum of four bedrooms that would be suitable for the Government's 15 new eco-towns. It will be built by Crest Nicholson.
The shortlist is published here and now readers can vote below.
Housing minister Caroline Flint says: 'Our goal is to build not just more homes, but better homes' The brief is to design a home for families of every generation, where you could stay for life.
From 2013 every new house must comply with 16 'lifestyle home standards', such as wider doors for wheelchairs, higher wall sockets and an accessible downstairs lavatory, and from 2016 they must also be zero-carbon.
Ms Flint paid tribute to the British housebuilding industry's attempts to meet these targets.
