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London’s housing delivery in ‘major crisis’, HBF warns in damning report

By 2025-09-15T11:21:00

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Excessive bureaucracy, building safety hold-ups and unrealistic targets sees completions head into reverse

The government’s housebuilding targets will be unachievable unless it intervenes to end “nosediving” investment in the capital, the Home Builders Federation has warned.

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