A new report out this month examines council-led housebuilding in London, assessing the potential for scaling up and the challenges preventing councils from increasing their housing delivery to its full potential.
Borough Builders: Delivering more housing across London, has found that 14 boroughs have direct delivery programmes using in-house teams – with 10,900 homes in the pipeline over the next five years.
And 17 boroughs have active wholly-owned development companies – i.e. separate commercial companies owned by councils – with 12,700 homes in the pipeline for the next five years.