About 40 per cent of housebuilders said they expected the sector to deliver 200,000 homes over the next 12 months, while a third predicted 150,000 and 14 per cent predicted fewer than 150,000 homes.
Around 80 per cent of developers said they were struggling to find buyers for affordable homes while almost half said they were unable to find a single buyer.
Builders say Labour’s housing targets cannot be met with 100,000 home shortfall expected THE UK risks building only half of the 300,000 homes targeted this year by the Government, according to a third of housebuilders.
Figures from the Home Builders Federation found the number of planning permissions granted in the third quarter of last year had dropped by 10 per cent to the lowest figure since 2006.
The site near Selby, North Yorkshire, produces 5 per cent of the UK’s electricity but Drax argued it was not viable without renewable energy subsidies for burning wood pellets.
