How to deliver 250,000 new homes every year for 25 years

Industry experts have claimed that the UK needs 250,000 new homes each year for the next 25 years to keep up with demand – and have outlined ideas for getting the numbers delivered.

Speaking at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) conference in Manchester, Neil McDonald, visiting fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, said that the required amount of homes could be built – if the political will exists.

What is needed, he said, is for government to:

• Be convinced that 250,000 are actually needed;
• Understand the serious consequences if such a volume is not delivered;
• Be convinced that such an amount can be built.