HCA Exceeds Its End of Year Homes Targets

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has smashed its end of year housing starts target by 65 per cent. Six-monthly figures released by the agency - in relation to housing starts and completions delivered through its various programmes - show that it has far exceeded its key outputs for 2010-11. According to its figures, it achieved a total of 57,605 housing starts on site against a target of 34,982 – equating to 65% above target - and 64,242 housing completions in England against a target of 62,495, in the financial year ending 31 March 2011. In the case of the latter, this figure is an increase of 8,088 more homes delivered than last year (56,154). The homes were delivered through its National Affordable Housing Programme (NAHP), Kickstart Housing Delivery Programme, the Local Authority New Build Programme (LANB) and the Property & Regeneration (P&R) programme. Read more on the HCA website.