The government is banning combustible materials on new high-rise homes and supporting to councils to carry out emergency remediation work.
Homes England says the number of homes being built in England has continued to rise in the first half of this financial year.
The West Midlands saw a 33 per cent increase in affordable homes completed during the last year, which is three times the national average.
Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 desperately-needed affordable homes in the past three years as a result of office conversions.
Just four per cent of London’s high rise council housing blocks have sprinklers installed, 18 months after the Grenfell Tower fire.
New figures show that the number of new homes built for social rent has fallen by almost four-fifths in a decade.
Shelter has said that there has been a 13,000 increase in the number of people recorded as homeless in Britain from last year.
Villages are missing out on new affordable homes because they are classified as unsuitable for growth by the local planning process.
New buildings and developments in Bath and North East Somerset will have to be more energy efficient and better adapted to climate change.
New figures showing that over 222,000 new homes were delivered in 2017 to 2018 have been welcomed by the Communities Secretary.
A new report has questioned the inconsistent funding of housing investment across the country, with investment favouring the South of England.
A number of options to deliver future developments across Bath and North East Somerset are going out to public consultation.
Westminster City Council has set out its ambition to build 1,495 new homes every year, insisting six in every ten are for middle-income families.
A proposal to speed up the creation of new homes could provide a ‘get-out clause’ for developers to avoid providing affordable homes.
More than half of young people facing homelessness who approached their local council for help last year received no meaningful support.