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According to data that emphasize the scope of the call, it will have to increase the number of zoning permits that make more than half in England in England, more than half, the government of Sir Keir Starmer.
The number of homes given to the planning permit in England last year has fallen to the lowest, data from the data provider Glenigan show. This will have to increase by 53 percent to intervene 370,000 planning permits focusing on the laboratory to determine the planning of planning at the end of last year.
“The latest planning data shows that the offer of housing in short -term and medium level is at the level of critical crisis,” said Neil Jefferson, CEO of Federation Federation Group Home Builders, which publishes data.
Starmer's administration has made a strengthening domestic construction with a key promise since it was elected last July, and promised 1.5 million new houses for five years.
The ministers have stated that they must exceed the number of planning authorities granted to achieve this level of offer – the highest in the generation – because not all the houses that the permit are eventually built.
The work accuses changes in planning made by the former conservative government under the pressure of deputies against the development of the household decline. Contractions in the activity also reflect the impact of higher interest rates.
Glenigan's data, which are also used in official statistics, show that in England in 2024 was granted permission of 242 610 houses, which is 2 percent compared to the previous year. However, the data also shows that it has been picked up in the last quarter of the year.
The Labour reforms in the planning system were awarded the household industry, but the HBF and the National Federation of Housing stated that these measures themselves would not be enough to achieve 1.5 MN.
Critics of commercial households who provide the vast majority of the new British homes say these companies intentionally build more slowly Before they could do to check the offer and reach higher sales prices.
Industry claims that building rates are limited by the buyer's demand and claims that the solution is for the government to help buyers with a credit program similar to buying from 2013 to 2023.
Companies claim that local authorities are already responding to the pressure of Westminster after planning reforms.
Graham Prothero, CEO of MJ Gleeson, who has divisions in the field of support and promotion of land, said the authorities are increasingly approved by development to maintain control of decision -making rather than facing their heads to the central government.
He said progress in planning on Earth “is more positive than you think. We see it ”.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Administration said: “This government inherited a broken planning system. . . We have already taken decisive steps to get the spades into the country. ”
