North East expected to miss the government’s house building targets by 2029

The North East is likely to miss the Government’s house building targets by more than 13,000 homes, according to a new report.

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00:00The research predicts that despite proposed changes to the planning system to increase private development,

00:06there will be an underdelivery of at least 388,000 homes against the new target.

00:11That includes a shortfall of more than 10,000 homes in Tyne and Wear alone,

00:15with metropolitan areas expected to be the worst performers.

00:19At 49% below the country's target, Tyne and Wear have the highest projected shortfall outside of Greater London.

00:25In July, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced that local councils

00:29would be given new mandatory housing targets in the hope of tackling a supply crisis.

00:34These proposals would see the 12 local authorities across the North East and Tayes Valley area

00:38being told to deliver a combined 12,182 new homes per year, almost double the current targets.

00:44I spoke with locals about their thoughts on this.

00:47I guess the North is more underfunded.

00:51For what I like to think, I don't know, I'm not really from England,

00:54so from what I can see, a lot of money goes to the South,

00:59because a lot of people with money go to the South.

01:02I'm speaking here without knowing, but I think that could be it.

01:07I guess where money goes and people go, housing goes.

01:12I think that the North East is really like the government kind of ignores northern parts of the country,

01:18because obviously big cities like London are really overpopulated,

01:22so they're going to need more houses.

01:24But I feel like, especially if you look up roadworks and stuff like this,

01:27the North East is not...

01:28It's severely neglected.

01:29Yeah, thank you, I've forgotten what's neglected.

01:32For myself, when me and my family, my dad and my two siblings,

01:37we had to wait six months, give or take, for the council to issue us a house.

01:43The North East has so many brown spaces because of deindustrialisation,

01:46so you can repurpose so much brown space from old factories and stuff.

01:51I think there's a lot of housing opportunity here.

01:53Honestly, it's a beautiful part of the world,

01:55so I guess the question is why are they falling short more than any other part of the country?

01:58I guess, yeah, I would imagine it's an economic thing.