Jenrick announces plan to break dominance of volume housebuilders

By Joey Gardiner2020-09-22T13:23:00

Housing secretary says planning reforms will have failed if ‘market concentration’ is not reduced

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has said he wants to use the government planning reforms to break the dominance of the volume housebuilders and will put more money in to the planning system.

Answering questions following his keynote speech to the Create Streets annual conference, Jenrick said that he would only regard his reforms as successful if they managed to reduce the proportion of new homes produced by the major volume builders.

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