Call for action as housing starts decline again

By Hamish Champ2019-10-04T05:00:00

Councils ask for Right to Buy reform

There were renewed calls for a reform of the government’s Right to Buy programme after new figures show that the number of housing starts across England in the last quarter fell by 8% year-on-year.

Data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) also shows the 37,200 new build housing starts in the three months to the end of June were 2% lower than the previous quarter.

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