The peer leading a House of Lords inquiry into housing delivery has said there may be a case for measures to encourage smaller developers to build a greater proportion of the country’s homes.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe, chair of the new House of Lords Built Environment Committee, told Building Design’s sister title Housing Today that she will look at the impact of “encouraging smaller builders back to the supply point” as part of the committee’s inquiry into barriers restricting housing delivery. She said thy were often more easily able to take on smaller or difficult to develop sites.

“You get some innovation and vibrancy and they do things that perhaps a bigger builder would not do,” she said. “Historically there’s quite a lot of smaller builders who have fallen by the wayside.”

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