Osborne housebuilding measures ‘simply don’t go far enough’

“Of course it’s good that the Chancellor wants to increase housebuilding. But these measures simply don’t go far enough. We need to double housebuilding in the capital, so that we deliver a minimum of 50,000 new homes each and every year.
                                            
“The impact of increased stamp duty on second homes will have some effect. The London Help to Buy helps on the demand side, but the root of London’s problem lack of supply. There’s so much more unused NHS and other public land that the government ought now to be using to create new homes, which could give a significant help to those in London struggling to find a home that’s actually affordable.”