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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Harry Taylor

REVEALED: Planning reforms could break housebuilders failed dominance housing expert - The Real Truth

A Competitions and Markets Authority report in 2024 criticised the speculative model employed by many of the largest housebuilders (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Wire)

Major housebuilders cannot be relied upon to achieve the Government’s target of building 1.5 million new homes, a housing expert has said, as he criticised a “failed monopoly” in the sector.

Lord Best, who is vice president of the Town and Country Planning Association, hit out at the “oligopoly” in the sector said the major firms for building homes had failed in their task of building enough.

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