Where does the government want 1.5 million new homes?

The authorities has outlined plans to tackle England's lodging shortage, with section councils fixed targets for caller homes successful their area.

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook said the absorption is connected areas wherever lodging is slightest affordable.

The purpose is for 370,000 caller homes successful England each year, to fulfil a authorities committedness for 1.5m caller homes wrong the adjacent 5 years.

Local authorities are being told to springiness developers support to build.

Millions of radical can't spend to bargain their archetypal location and determination is simply a backlog of radical surviving successful unsuitable accommodation.

According to the government, 1.3 cardinal households are connected societal lodging waiting lists and a grounds fig – including 160,000 children – are successful impermanent accommodation.

The government, which announced its plans successful the updated National Planning Policy Framework, has not acceptable a day for erstwhile the 370,000 people volition beryllium reached.

Areas with the astir unaffordable lodging but the top imaginable for maturation person higher housebuilding targets, the authorities says.

Housing curate Matthew Pennycook told the Commons the authorities volition beryllium "focusing maturation connected metropolis regions".

He said London volition spot its yearly quota arsenic a full acceptable to astir 88,000.

That's astir 10,000 little than the people nether the erstwhile Conservative government. However, determination are variations wrong the capital, with immoderate areas being fixed higher targets.

For example, Kensington and Chelsea is being asked to physique 5,107 caller homes - up from 1,381. The people for Westminster is 4,341 - up from1,862.

The South East arsenic a full volition person an yearly quota of astir 71,000 - 20,000 much than planned nether the erstwhile Conservative government.

Other notable changes include:

• South Oxfordshire – rising from the Conservative's people of 579 to 1,242
• Winchester – rising from 676 to 1,157
• Bath and North East Somerset – rising from 717 to 1,471
• Warwick – rising from 653 to 1,062
• Warrington - rising from 791 to 1,064
• Cumberland - rising from 244 to 1,105

Previously developed onshore volition beryllium prioritised for caller homes, the authorities says. These "brownfield sites" tin see places similar derelict concern oregon commercialized developments.

However, Pennycook said brownfield onshore unsocial volition not beryllium capable to present the fig of homes the state needs.

As a result, councils volition besides beryllium ordered to reappraisal greenish loop boundaries - which were created to forestall municipality sprawl - by identifying little prime "grey belt" onshore that tin beryllium built on.

The authorities has antecedently described the grey loop arsenic "poor prime and disfigured areas" connected the greenish belt.

It has antecedently fixed an illustration of grey loop onshore arsenic a disused store successful Tottenham, northbound London, which could not beryllium built connected due to the fact that it was wrong the greenish belt.

There is nary authoritative information connected the size of the grey belt.

However, property cause Knight Frank antecedently carried retired its ain probe and identified 11,000 antecedently developed sites – making up little than 1% of the greenish belt.

These were concentrated successful the southbound of England, with conscionable implicit 40% wrong the London greenish loop area.

They estimated that 100,000-200,000 caller household homes could beryllium built connected grey loop sites.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said improvement would beryllium locally led, with the onshore developed "brownfield first, grey tract next, and greenbelt last".

Conservative shadiness lodging caput Kevin Hollinrake said: "This readying model pushes improvement to agrarian areas, concreting implicit greenish belt, greenish fields and implicit our greenish and pleasant land."

• What is the grey belt?

Announcing its plans, the authorities said councils and developers indispensable springiness greater information to societal rent erstwhile gathering caller homes.

It said section leaders volition person "greater powers to physique genuinely affordable homes for those who request them most".

The definition of affordable homes includes homes for merchantability arsenic portion of a shared-ownership scheme, oregon those rented astatine a little rate, oregon arsenic portion of a societal lodging agreement.

Any improvement connected greenish loop indispensable conscionable strict requirements, with developers having to supply infrastructure for section communities, specified arsenic nurseries, GP surgeries and transport, the authorities said.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said readying decisions volition beryllium pushed done if necessary.

"The starting constituent is section plans, and that's truly important for councils to make the program according to the target, taking into relationship section need, and moving with developers. So that's wherever it starts," helium said.

"But are we going to propulsion it though if those plans don't work? Yes, yes we perfectly are."

Responses from section councils to an Freedom of Information petition by the BBC suggest the government could beryllium connected a collision people with section authorities.

The immense bulk of councils expressed concern. Many fearfulness targets person not taken into relationship strains connected section infrastructure, onshore shortages, and a deficiency of capableness successful the readying strategy and operation industry.

According to the latest study from the Construction Skills Network, astir 225,000 caller operation workers are needed crossed the UK by 2027.

There are conscionable nether 700,000 bare and unfurnished homes successful England, according to the astir caller authorities figures.

Of those, 261,471 are classed arsenic "long-term empty," meaning no-one has lived determination for six months oregon more.

But bringing derelict and abandoned properties backmost to beingness tin beryllium a agelong and analyzable process.

Even uncovering retired who owns properties that person been lasting bare for years, oregon successful immoderate cases decades, tin beryllium a challenge.