280,000 approved homes not completed

By Martin Ford | 09 August 2019

The number of housing planning permissions granted far outweighs the number of completions, according to new research.

Only a fraction of the 1.8m homes given the go-ahead by local authorities since 2011 have been built, analysis by Shelter has found.

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