Drop in planning permissions casts doubt on England’s housebuilding target

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The Sir Keir Starmer government must raise the number of planning permits in England every year to hit more than half of its household targets, according to the fact that they attach importance to the scale of the challenge.

Last year, the number of houses for planning permission in England has fallen from 2014, exhibitions from Glenigan Show Shows. This should be raised by 53% to target 370,000 planning permits that the work is set under its national planning policy at the end of last year.

“Recent planning figures show that housing supplies in short and medium terms are at the level of critical crisis,” said Neil Jefferson, Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of Home Builders.

The Steps Administration has prepared a household, as it was elected in July last year, promising to be 1.5 million new houses for more than five years.

The ministers noted that it is necessary to overestimate the number of planning permissions, which was given to the level of supply, as all the houses given permission, after all, are built.

The work accuses the changes made by the former conservative government, under the pressure of the anti-constitutional deputies for the decline of households. The contraction of the activity also reflects the effect of higher interest rates.

Glenigan figures, which are also used in official statistics, show 242.610 houses in England to be issued in 2024 compared to the previous year. But the data also shows permissions taken in the last quarter of the year.

Labor reforms were assessed to the planning system by household industry, but both HBF and the National Housing Federation said that these funds would not be alone to reach 1.5 million targets.

Critics of commercial housewives that provide the vast majority of new British houses say these companies intentionally Build slowly than they could do to control the supply and reach higher sales prices.

Industry claims that construction rates are limited to buyer’s request and say that the solution is for the government that can purchase a loan scheme that deals with 2013.

The companies say that the local authorities are already responding to the pressure of Westminister after planning reform.

Graham Prothero, MJ Gleeson’s Chief Executive Officer, has been a household and land promotion departments, says the authorities are more and more establishing developments to control decision making.

He said that the progress of planning the ground is “more positive than you think. We see it. “

The Ministry of Apartments, Communities and Local Self-Government said. “This government inherited a broken planning system. A number of a number we have already taken decisive steps to get a spading on the ground. ”