MPs have voiced disappointment over the latest official housebuilding figures, which show development slowing despite the Government’s commitment to delivering 1.5 million homes by 2029.

New data confirms that England delivered 208,600 net additional homes in the year to March 2025 — a 6% decline on 2023/24.

The total includes:

• 190,600 new-build homes
• 17,710 homes created through change of use
• 3,850 conversions (e.g. houses into flats)
• 1,080 other gains (caravans, houseboats, etc.)
• Offset by 4,630 demolitions

Florence Eshalomi, chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, criticised the figures, saying: “Only 208,600 new homes were delivered in the year to March 2025, continuing over a decade of failure to build anything like the homes we need.”

She urged ministers to publish the overdue Long-Term Housing Strategy, promised for more than a year, and to set out actionable steps to meet the target of 1.5m homes this Parliament.

Eshalomi added that with the Autumn Budget approaching, the Chancellor should bring forward measures to support councils, reinvigorate the New Towns programme, and attract the “billions of pounds” in public and private investment required to meet the Government’s housing ambitions.