Recognising the need to reverse the reduction in affordable and social housing that we saw in the final years of the Conservative government, Labour’s general election manifesto promised to deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation and further reform compulsory purchase compensation rules, ‘to improve land assembly, speed up site delivery, and deliver housing, infrastructure, amenity, and transport benefits in the public interest’. 

The new government was quick to produce a summary of the future Planning and Infrastructure Bill which repeated the manifesto commitment regarding affordable housing and compulsory purchase.