Labours house building targets are fantasy. Take sites and planning out of it – who’s gonna build them?
I wonder how many of those starts will be ‘affordable’.
I wonder if the developers think they’ll get bigger and more profitable projects approved when the planning reforms go through
That’s an incomplete chart. Show me how many housing units each borough demolished as well.. we might see a zero sum game.
I’ll trust the numbers, but Newham seems strange – seems like there’s new developments all over Newham, but maybe they all started earlier than Q1
I wonder want counts as ‘start’ because there has definitely been at least one largish plot that’s started near me. Start as in board off and demolish what was there (not housing) and start the foundations.
Greenwich is building a crazy number of skyscrapers. They just didn’t start now, so they don’t show up on this chart. There will be hundreds of new homes though within a year though.
It’s a cherry-picked stat. Better would be homes by estimated date of completion.
What a weird way to measure things? Surely we should he measuring by completions or net gain of units per borough etc. this feels disingenuous
It because of the new Building Safety Act regulator and getting new developments approved. Should be back to ok in a year or two. New system just being introduced which specifically covers residential to improve fire safety.
I work in the construction sector, and it can take a year, usually even more before a development gets aprooved. And then, usually around 3-5 years planning, and working through the RIBA stages until people move in.
Give it some time, policy on planning if implemented correctly will only start to have effect on charts like this towards the end of 2025, mid 2026.
It doesn’t really matter because new houses will go to either foreign investors or illegal migrants.
call bulshit on this.
There is no formal mechanism to record site starts with the planning authority, any process like this will have a delay where they retrospectively ask “when did you start” and it’ll be last month.
Well yeah. Starting a build in Jan Feb march ain’t great weather for construction…
This feels like a metric being used to make a point, rather than having much real meaning to it. At least use something ‘change in number of dwellings’ which could be broken down into available dwellings, dwellings destroyed, dwellings under construction, and dwellings planned or something like that. It’s also weird looking at a quarter in isolation. I don’t like it, and immediately get suspicious when I see data presented this way.
Worst thing is I’m sure there are more robust arguments to be made through data than this!
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Labours house building targets are fantasy. Take sites and planning out of it – who’s gonna build them?
I wonder how many of those starts will be ‘affordable’.
I wonder if the developers think they’ll get bigger and more profitable projects approved when the planning reforms go through
That’s an incomplete chart. Show me how many housing units each borough demolished as well.. we might see a zero sum game.
I’ll trust the numbers, but Newham seems strange – seems like there’s new developments all over Newham, but maybe they all started earlier than Q1
I wonder want counts as ‘start’ because there has definitely been at least one largish plot that’s started near me. Start as in board off and demolish what was there (not housing) and start the foundations.
Greenwich is building a crazy number of skyscrapers. They just didn’t start now, so they don’t show up on this chart. There will be hundreds of new homes though within a year though.
It’s a cherry-picked stat. Better would be homes by estimated date of completion.
What a weird way to measure things? Surely we should he measuring by completions or net gain of units per borough etc. this feels disingenuous
It because of the new Building Safety Act regulator and getting new developments approved. Should be back to ok in a year or two. New system just being introduced which specifically covers residential to improve fire safety.
I work in the construction sector, and it can take a year, usually even more before a development gets aprooved. And then, usually around 3-5 years planning, and working through the RIBA stages until people move in.
Give it some time, policy on planning if implemented correctly will only start to have effect on charts like this towards the end of 2025, mid 2026.
It doesn’t really matter because new houses will go to either foreign investors or illegal migrants.
call bulshit on this.
There is no formal mechanism to record site starts with the planning authority, any process like this will have a delay where they retrospectively ask “when did you start” and it’ll be last month.
Well yeah. Starting a build in Jan Feb march ain’t great weather for construction…
This feels like a metric being used to make a point, rather than having much real meaning to it. At least use something ‘change in number of dwellings’ which could be broken down into available dwellings, dwellings destroyed, dwellings under construction, and dwellings planned or something like that. It’s also weird looking at a quarter in isolation. I don’t like it, and immediately get suspicious when I see data presented this way.
Worst thing is I’m sure there are more robust arguments to be made through data than this!
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