HOMES AND COMMUNITIES AGENCY
BUILDING FOR A BETTER FUTURE
1 The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is tasked with helping create successful communities by making more homes and business premises available to the residents and businesses who need them. Sir Edward Lister, Chairman of the HCA outlines why offsite could play a major role in improving delivery.
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WWW.OFFSITEMAGAZINE.CO.UK | SPRING 2017
I have been talking a lot recently about modern methods of construction. I believe expanding offsite manufacturing and other advanced construction technologies is essential if we are to address this country’s housing shortage. As the Government’s recentlypublished Housing White Paper set out, we have got to build more homes and build them faster. Since the downturn, construction rates have steadily climbed to around 190,000 homes a year but continuing to rely on volume housebuilders and housing associations won’t give us the sustainable growth in supply we need over the long term, through ‘thick and thin’. We must innovate and my organisation, the Homes and Communities Agency, intends to lead the way in partnership with industry.