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The government of Sir Keir Starrer must increase the number of planning permissions granted in England by more than half each year to achieve its house construction goals, so that the selection of the challenge is emphasized.
The number of houses that were granted the building permit in England last year has dropped to the lowest since 2014, as the figures from the data provider show Glenigan. This must increase by 53 percent in order to achieve the goal of 370,000 plans for planning, which the workforce determined at the end of last year as part of his national planning policy.
“The latest planning figures show that the range of housing has short and medium and medium -sized crisis levels,” said Neil Jefferson, Managing Director of the Home Builder Federation industry group, which publishes the data.
The management of Starrer has made house construction from Housebuilding an important promise since its election last July, which promised 1.5 million new houses for over five years.
The ministers have declared that they have to exceed the number of planning permissions to achieve this level of offer – the highest in a generation – because not all houses that are charged are ultimately built.
Workers’ school of planning changes of the former conservative government under pressure from MPs against the development of the house for the downturn in the building building. The contraction of the activity also reflects the effects of higher interest rates.
Glenigan’s figures, which are also used in official statistics, show that 242,610 houses in England were granted approval in England, a decrease of 2 percent compared to the previous year. The data also show the authorizations in the last quarter of the year.
The reforms of Labor in the planning system were praised by the house construction industry, but both the Hbf and the National Housing Federation said that these measures alone will not be sufficient to the 1.5 million. -to achieve.
These companies intentionally say critics of the commercial house builders who offer the vast majority of the new houses of Britain slower Then you could do to control the offer and achieve higher sales prices.
The industry argues that the building rates are limited by the demand from the buyers and say that the government solution is to help buyers with a similar loan program that resembles from 2013 to 2023. In particular, first buyers have been struggling in the past two years in view of the higher mortgage interest.
According to the companies, the local authorities are already reacting to the pressure from Westminster according to the planning reforms.
Graham Prothero, Managing Director of MJ Gleeson, whose housing and land funding departments have, said that the authorities are increasingly approving developments in order to keep control of decision-making instead of making calls about their heads against the central government.
He said that the progress in planning on site was “more positive than you think. We see it “.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: “This government has inherited a broken planning system. . . We have already taken decisive steps to bring spade into the ground. ”
