Arguably the biggest challenge for the UK in the coming years will be the lack of housing, a subject that has been discussed for many years but remains elusive in trying to address. Back in 2004 Kate Barker referred, in her “Review of Housing Supply” to a need of 240,000 homes per year, which was subsequently updated by the then Conservative Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, in 2017 to 300,000 (for England).