Current UK house-building projections fall ‘significantly short of requirements’ and will result in increased overcrowding, homelessness and social exclusion, according to the Town and Country Planning Association. The first independent study to map new projections for population growth with housing supply reveals a need for an extra 17,000 new homes each year. The government has set a target to build an additional three million homes by 2020, (214,000 each year), but latest population figures suggest at least 231,000 homes per year will be needed.
Revised population figures, released in 2007, estimated the population of England to be almost three million higher than previously predicted by 2026.

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24 September 2008
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