
IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025, on ‘Lies, damn lies, and Homes England statistics.
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Paul Finch, Programme Director writes for the World Architecture Festival 2025 writes:
For all those who are baffled as to how the UK government will meet its target of building 1.5 new homes during its five-year life, a form of enlightenment may come from the latest statistics provided by Homes England, which supposedly ‘delivers’ new homes across the country….
HE’s [Homes England] latest triumphalist Press Release states that provisional figures for 2024/25 show that the organization has ‘surpassed’ its annual targets for new homes started, completed and ‘unlocked’ as the result of, for example, site purchases.
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