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'Year lost' on housebuilding under new government, laments London Labour MP

Housing select committee chair says fact most London boroughs saw no new homes start construction in first months of this year is “really shocking”

'A year lost’ for London housebuilding under new Labour government, says housing chair

The first 10 months of the new Labour Government has effectively been a “year that we’ve lost” for housebuilding in the capital, the chair of Parliament’s housing select committee has lamented. In comments to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Florence Eshalomi said the fact that most London boroughs saw no new homes start construction in the first months of this year was “really shocking” and that “nowhere near enough” properties are being …

Kevin McCloud: Housebuilder 'oligopoly' needs urgent reform

Britain’s housebuilding industry is a cartel-like oligopoly that needs root and branch reform in order for the UK is to build enough high-quality homes to solve its housing crisis, Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud has said. In a withering assessment the track record of major housebuilders, McCloud said the UK construction sector’s supply chain had “been deracinated” by the sector’s biggest players, which have have failed to supply humans wi…