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Greg Clark today (20 November 2015) welcomed the latest figures showing the country is building again, with 753,000 new homes provided since 2010.

The Communities Secretary said that these figures demonstrated how the government’s actions to reform the planning system and put power in the hands of local people were working.

Today’s figures reveal there were an additional 186,000 new homes provided in the year to September - the highest annual increase since 2008. This takes the total increase since 2010 to

753,000.

By reforming the planning system and putting power back into the hands of communities, we’re giving residents the opportunity to have their voice heard over how their local area is

developed.

This is a far cry from the top-down bureaucracy of the past that left residents feeling powerless over how their local area was developed, with housebuilding levels reaching their lowest

since the 1920’s.

The government is currently moving ahead with its landmark Housing and Planning Bill, which will give an extra million people the chance to achieve their dream of home ownership.

The figures on additional homes shown by today’s council tax statistics are consistent with the housing supply figures in the Net supply of housing statistics release published on 12

November 2015.