Goldsmith Street, a social housing development in Norwich designed by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley, won architecture’s prestigious Stirling Prize in 2019.
Key Cities can work with the government as its critical partner, ensuring that the outcome doesn’t just focus on quantity, but also on quality.
Housing delivery has become a flagship priority for government with a commitment to build 1.5 million new homes by the end of the current parliament. While Key Cities welcomes these ambitions, additional measures are required so cities of all sizes can contribute to national targets and address long-term housing challenges.
The government’s focus on housebuilding represents the UK’s historic struggle to meet its housing targets. Demand for new housing in the UK continues to exceed supply, and the country has not achieved the construction of more than 300,000 homes in a single calendar year since the 1970s.
Following a survey of our 25 member cities and towns, we identified the structural barriers to housing delivery throughout the UK regions and provided recommendations in our housing report ‘Turbocharging housebuilding in cities and urban areas’ including a series of targeted reforms that will unlock land, improve viability and raise housing standards. Read the report here.
