The NHPAU, UK’s foremost advisory body on housing affordability, has recommended a further increase of house provision based on future projections of household growth and the changing social demographic of the UK.

“The net result is that we are advising that the bottom of the range figures should increase by an average of 3% to an annual average requirement of 237,800 extra homes a year from 2008 to 2031 for England as a whole and that top of the range figures should increase by 5% to a national average requirement of 290,500 extra homes.”

These figures would add up to an increase of some 6.7 million new homes by 2031.

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