{"id":92505,"date":"2021-04-26T08:57:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T07:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=92505"},"modified":"2021-04-26T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T07:57:04","slug":"fair-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/fair-housing-market\/92505\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a fair housing market for all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite decades of discussion and successive governments\u2019 efforts, the UK is still in the grip of a housing crisis. Ben Everitt MP discusses the creation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group<\/a> for Housing Market & Housing Delivery and its report, A Fair Housing Market for All, which aims to untangle the web of challenges holding back housebuilding<\/h2>\n

I set up the Housing Market & Housing Delivery APPG in 2020 to focus on the problems affecting the delivery of new homes<\/a>. The APPG consists of a number of parliamentarians who share a belief in the importance of building new homes and want to raise housing high up the political agenda. Alongside parliamentarians, the APPG has also recruited an advisory board of industry leaders who can provide guidance and expert counsel.<\/p>\n

As an APPG, our role is to raise awareness of industry challenges and opportunities, to improve the profile and status of construction, and to build a stronger channel between Government and business. We were determined not to be another talking shop or trade body but instead to create an active \u201cthinking space\u201d, which convenes meetings and overcomes bureaucratic barriers. Our meetings so far have shown the power of bringing thoughtful people together to discuss a shared challenge, using problem-solving tools.<\/p>\n

The background to our APPG is that despite decades of discussion and countless policy interventions, the UK housing crisis<\/a> remains. Successive, well-meaning policy interventions in the housing market have created a complex web of unintended consequences, leading to unnecessary delay, uncertainty and cost in the housebuilding process. The planning process is adversarial, bureaucratic and fails to deliver the homes that local communities want.<\/p>\n

In March, the APPG published its first report, A Fair Housing Market for All<\/a>. This report is based on our first formal consultation, which took place between August and January.<\/p>\n

In our consultation, we took a \u201cbig picture\u201d approach to obtain a better view of \u201cthe plumbing\u201d beneath the surface of the UK\u2019s housing industry. We had 270 responses to our online survey, 37 written submissions and 13 parties gave oral evidence.<\/p>\n

What is apparent from the responses is the wide agreement across the sector on what the key problems and roadblocks are. Although the sector faces definite challenges, I am very optimistic because if we fix these problems, we could see our housing market, and the levelling up agenda more broadly, turbocharged by building more of the right homes in the right places.<\/p>\n

Following analysis of the consultation responses, we identified the following five main themes:<\/h2>\n