House Builders Association Newsletter 2026 – Issue 14

Prime Minister in-waiting Andrew Burnham details his council housebuilding ambitions, the Land Registry announces new contractual control regulations and some of Britain's largest housebuilders face a proposed class action on behalf of consumers who bought a new home between 2015 and 2025.
Created: 13 July 2026
Last Reviewed: 13 July 2026
Contents
Future direction of travel for government housing policy?
Boosting council housing – Reed
VAT treatment of land for social housing – the “Golden Brick” problem
London Update
Local Plan Update
Recovered appeals and call-ins
Garden Community, Chelmsford
Building Safety Update
Contractual Control Agreements – digital submissions for registered land (options, conditional contracts and pre-emption rights etc)
National Housing Bank Update
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects update
Water Update
Build to Rent Report, Qu.2, 2026 – Savills
Affordable Housing Investment, Savills
Population Projections – “Death Day”
Possible class action – alleged collusion by major housebuilders
Berkeley’s Judicial Review application
Pennycook on Leasehold and Commonhold reform
Appointments
The Economy
The Market
NFB Tendering Portal
Business Leadership Diploma
Biodiversity Net Gain NFB survey
CITB Homebuilders Employer Network
HBA Housebuilders survey

Future direction of travel for government housing policy?

“Biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period”

More media sources have picked up the Prime Minister-in-Waiting’s recent comments about delivering the “biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period” (see the lead story in HBA Newsletter No.13).

Housing Today noted that Burnham commented that “Britain’s housing crisis is having a ruinous impact on its public finances. So working with local areas, No 10 North will oversee the biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period.” It would utilise vacant public land to reduce costs and focus on delivering high density development.

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