The government is set to miss its target for the number of homes it aimed to build by selling public sector land by 91,000 homes – 57% of the overall target.
A report by Parliament’s Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said that the target was “clearly unrealistic from the outset”.
It added that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s “unacceptably loose” definition of what constitutes a new home has artificially inflated the number of new homes that have been created.
Committee chair Meg Hiller said: “Land disposal targets were set without a rigorous evidence base of what could actually be delivered. It is no real surprise, then, that the government will now fail to meet its target to sell enough land by 2020 for 160,000 homes.”
