Councils have pledged to build half a million new homes by the end of the decade in a bid to tackle the housing crisis.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has outlined a series of measures, which will include an overhaul of Right to Buy and scrapping the cap on the Housing Revenue Account borrowing limit.

New chair of the LGA, Cllr David Sparks, said the housing crisis was ‘nothing short of a national scandal'