Martin Ford 14 July 2023

Housebuilding at risk from planning reforms

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Dropping local housing targets is endangering the Government’s commitment to build 300,000 homes per year, a new report has found.

An inquiry by the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee heard evidence from planning consultants that annual housebuilding will go down to around 150,000 a year under the Government’s proposed policy reforms, which include changing mandatory local housing targets to an 'advisory starting point’ and removing the requirement for a five-year supply.

Committee chair Clive Betts said: ‘We have a national shortage of housing in England and there’s evidence the Government’s latest shake-up of planning rules is already having a damaging impact on efforts to increase the building of new homes.

‘Without urgent action, the Government will fail to achieve its national housing target of building 300,000 net new homes per year by the mid-2020s.’

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