Publication type
Parliamentary Paper
Series Number
132
Series
HL Paper
Publication date
January 10, 2022
Summary:
The Built Environment Committee was appointed by the House of Lords on 13 May 2021 to consider matters relating to the built environment, including policies relating to housing, planning, transport and infrastructure.
The challenges facing the housing market have been well documented: too many people are living in expensive, unsuitable, poor quality homes. To address these complex challenges in the long term, it is necessary to increase housing supply now. The Government has set an ambitious target for 300,000 new homes per year (net additions) and one million new homes by 2024. We heard that even this target may not be enough to address future trends. We welcome this focus on housing supply but are concerned that it will not be met if the barriers to building new homes are not addressed. In this report, we call on the Government to take action and remove the administrative and other blockers which, at present, make increasing the number of homes built much more difficult. We recognise that these challenges play out differently across the country as a whole. London and the South East face different challenges to other regions, as do those at different ends of the affordability scale.
In this report, we provide a package of proposals to help deliver much needed housing, some of which are large and strategic while others call for changes within the existing systems. Taken together, they would help address the critical undersupply of new homes.
Subjects
Link
- https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/8354/documents/85292/default/
Related Publications
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Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex – written evidence (UKH0026) [House of Lords. Built Environment Committee. Meeting the UK’s housing demand inquiry]
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