If Prime MInister Keir Starmer's domestic economic strategy is to succeed there will have to be evidence that the flagship housebuilding strategy is working and seen to work.  As a headline target this means 1.5 million homes built over the parliament averaging at 300,000 new developments a year being hit.

Among the 40 pieces of legislation outlined in a very assured if overladen King's Speech, the planning and infrastructure bill was unveiled as a means of ‘unlocking more housing and infrastructure' and as an ‘enabler of growth – enabling democratic engagement with how, not if, homes and infrastructure are built'.