{"id":154395,"date":"2025-08-22T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=154395"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:59:21","slug":"industry-bodies-react-irish-and-welsh-housebuilding-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/industry-bodies-react-irish-and-welsh-housebuilding-stats\/154395\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry bodies react to Irish and Welsh housebuilding stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Home Builders Federation (HBF) and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Northern Ireland have both responded to the countries\u2019 individual house building statistics<\/h2>\n<p>Irish and Welsh housebuilding statistics have both been updated, with Ireland seeing a quarterly update, while Wales has a yearly update.<\/p>\n<p>Wales has seen a general minor drop, while Ireland has more promising results.<\/p>\n<h3>HBF responds to Welsh statistics<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.wales\/new-house-building-april-2024-march-2025-html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Housebuilding figures for Wales<\/a> cover the period 2024\/25, and show a fall in housing supply by 3% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>4,631 new homes were completed in the period, down from 2023\/24\u2019s 4,771. Of these new homes, 73% (3,710) were delivered by the private sector (a 9% decrease year-on-year), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/cih-supports-welsh-social-housing-report-emphasising-crisis\/146049\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3,800 new dwellings were started<\/a>, down by 26% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Harris, planning and policy advisor for Wales, said: &#8220;A further reduction in the number of homes built in Wales last year illustrates the stark challenges faced by house builders across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out-of-date Local Development Plans continue to limit investment in new housing, while delays in the planning process, caused by an influx of additional policy and regulatory requirements and a lack of resource within council planning departments, create more uncertainty and costs for builders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This downward trend is now entrenched and likely to continue unless urgent action is taken by the +Welsh Government to address the many barriers in the way of delivering the homes that Wales needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>CIH responds to Irish statistics<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/datavis.nisra.gov.uk\/communities\/northern-ireland-housing-bulletin-apr-jun-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Ireland Housing Bulletin (April \u2013 June 2025)<\/a> shows mild positivity, with starts on new dwellings up 30% from the previous quarter at 2,248, and completions up 8% to 1,475.<\/p>\n<p>However, some negatives came in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/northern-ireland-housebuilding-sees-growth\/151689\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">form of delivery<\/a>, with households waiting for a home up by 1% to 49,129, and households in housing stress also up by 1% to 37,939. The number of households allocated a new social home also fell from last quarter\u2019s 8,843 to 6,173.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Steele, engagement and external affairs manager at CIH Northern Ireland, said: \u201cThe latest statistics highlight a worrying reality. Even with some growth in new starts and completions, we are still not building nearly enough homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rising waiting lists and continued reliance on temporary accommodation show the real human cost of underinvestment. Without urgent action to restore funding and provide long-term certainty, the housing crisis in Northern Ireland will only worsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile housing providers are working hard to deliver against challenging targets, the core issue remains a lack of sustained investment and long-term policy direction. The positive momentum seen in delivery must be matched by ambition, leadership, and resources if Northern Ireland is to meet its housing need and ensure that every household can access a safe, affordable home.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chartered Institute of Housing and Home Builders Federation have both reacted to Irish and Welsh housebuilding statistics, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":154397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[572,172892,172890],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-housebuilding","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-wales"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Industry bodies react to Irish and Welsh housebuilding stats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chartered Institute of Housing and Home Builders Federation have both reacted to Irish and Welsh housebuilding statistics, respectively\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/industry-bodies-react-irish-and-welsh-housebuilding-stats\/154395\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Industry bodies react to Irish and Welsh housebuilding stats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chartered Institute of Housing and Home Builders Federation have both reacted to Irish and Welsh housebuilding statistics, respectively\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/industry-bodies-react-irish-and-welsh-housebuilding-stats\/154395\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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