Social housing provision: Reconciling social need and commercial risks

Recent research published by housing charity Shelter suggests that 40% of homes granted planning permission between 2011 and 2019 in England have not been built. The housing shortage may therefore be less to do with the planning system but rather a result of private developers ‘land banking’ sites.

Katy Klingopulos, Legal Director in our commercial real estate team, discusses the changing nature of development and how we can tackle the house shortage in an article for PBC Today.

The full article is available, here.