UK ‘over-reliant on a handful of volume builders’, says housing minister

By Daniel Gayne2024-09-24T07:58:00

Pennycook tells Labour conference event that housing sector needs more SME building and pledges diversification

Housebuilding in the UK relies too much on a small number of housebuilders, the minister for housing has told a fringe event at Labour conference.

On the second day of the conference in Liverpool, known as business day, Matthew Pennycook said the industry needed to diversify.

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