Serious thought now needs to be given to incentivising developers to actually build houses. CPRE would suggest:

the granting of planning permission should be tied to a contract with the developer that determines the rate at which homes will be built;

failure to comply with the contract (or, in the absence of a contract, failure to construct homes at a reasonable rate) could lead to measures such as:

financial penalties on the developer; and/or

revocation of the developer’s right to build all or part of the outstanding planning permission, and delegation of that right to competing developers, including custom- and self-builders.

Then the Government might actually pass the test to make sure more houses are being built – and in the right places.”