Shadow housing secretary John Healey has slammed the government’s 300,000 homes a year target, saying there is absolutely no indication the goal will be reached.

Speaking to Housing Today’s sister title Building, Healey (pictured) said: “It’s a number that Tory ministers have plucked out of the air. They have no convincing plan in place for reaching that target.

“The only time in this country we have built consistently 300,000 homes a year was in the Labour years in the late 1960s when commercial housebuilders built at scale, councils built at scale and so did housing associations.”

…