A total of 222,000 new homes were delivered between 2017 and 2018 in England, figures published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have revealed.

According to the report ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, this figure represents the highest level of new homes delivered across England in all but one of the last 31 years, and brings the total number of additional homes delivered since 2010 to 1.3 million.

The Government believes that this indicates the industry is on track to deliver its 300,000 homes a year target.

“Today’s figures are great news and show another yearly increase in the number of new homes delivered, but we are determined to do more to keep us on track to deliver the homes communities need,”

said Communities Secretary James Brokenshire.

“That’s why we have set out an ambitious package of measures to deliver 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s. This includes over £44bn of investment, rewriting the planning rules and scrapping the borrowing cap so councils can deliver a new generation of council housing.”