Lichfields

If every piece of land on councils’ brownfield land registers were to be built on, this capacity equates to just 31 per cent of the 4.5 million new homes needed over the next 15 years to meet demand, reveals a report.

Planning policymakers and housebuilders must work together to ensure that there is sufficient land available to meet housing need in Scotland, according to planning consultancy Lichfields.

Local planning policies should be reviewed to ensure that they support working from home, according to a housebuilder and planning consultancy.

The country needs to increase delivery by 59,200 homes a year in order to meet the government's housing target of building 300,000 homes a year in England - which would require each local authority to allocate an extra four to five medium-sized sites per year or four to five large sites...