Third Of London Homes Granted Planning Permission Not Built

Planning permission is being granted for enough homes to solve London's housing crisis but over a third of them have not been built, campaigners said. Figures from the Fifty Thousand Homes campaign show permission has been given for 50,000 new houses and flats in the capital each year since 2014. But the group said 36% of these were not built which was "compounding the huge challenge" of building more homes. City Hall said the data "underlines the huge scale of the challenge we face". The Fifty Thousand Homes campaign was launched by London First "to ensure London builds the homes it needs to stay competitive". Read more on the BBC website.