How can the planning system deliver more housing?

• Recent years have seen higher house prices, greater house price volatility and worsening affordability. Housing output has been low, even in the boom. • There is resistance to top-down targets at the local level. Local hostility to new development is often driven by fears that adequate roads, schools and other services will not be provided. • Land supply is heavily constrained and available land is not always in the right places. • There is not enough funding for affordable housing, especially with the collapse of Section 106 contributions in the market downturn. • Regulation is expensive, complicated and slow moving. Ways forward