MPs have expressed disappoint at the latest official housebuilding figures showing a dip in development despite the Government’s aim to build 1.5m homes by 2029.
Official data shows annual housing supply in England hit 208,600 net additional dwellings in the year to March 2025, a 6% decrease on 2023/2024.
This resulted from 190,600 new build homes, 17,710 gains from change of use between non-domestic and residential, 3,850 from conversions between houses and flats and 1,080 other gains (caravans, house boats, etc), offset by 4,630 demolitions.
Florence Eshalomi, chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee, said: “The statistics show that only 208,600 new homes were delivered in the year to March 2025, continuing over a decade of failure to build anything like the homes we need.
“The Government must be focused on getting to grips with this crisis and bring forward the delayed Long-Term Housing Strategy, which has been promised for over a year now. It must set out how we can ramp up the pace of housing delivery with practical reforms to build 1.5 million homes during this Parliament.
“Given the scale of the crisis, I hope the Chancellor will use next week’s Budget to boost the housing sector, support councils and the New Towns programme, and help deliver the billions of pounds of public and private investment needed to meet the Government’s housing ambitions.”
