The Home Builders Federation (HBF) has sent a letter signed by over 100 housebuilders to chancellor Rachel Reeves calling for a suspension to the Building Safety Levy.

But for every 10,000 new homes to be built, the sector needs about 30,000 new recruits across 12 trades, according to the HBF, the trade body for the house building ... half of London's ...

the number of permissions for both building sites and actual homes in England have been on a downward trajectory for the last ...