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Build 1.5 million new homes

“Labour will get Britain building again, creating jobs across England, with 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament.”

Delivering2024 manifesto, page 36, 13 Jun 2024
  5. Delivering

Where it stands

Homes are being built and the government publishes official estimates against the target. The latest, published on 24 September 2026, puts net additional homes in England since 9 July 2024 at 437,900, about 29% of 1.5 million, so the card sits at Delivering. The manifesto says "over the next parliament", taken here as by 1 July 2029.

What has happened

  1. Jun 2024Labour manifesto pledges 1.5 million new homes over the Parliament, Promised
  2. Dec 2024The government's Plan for Change sets building 1.5 million homes in England as a milestone, In plan evidence
  3. Jun 2025Spending Review 2025 confirms £39bn for a new 10-year Affordable Homes Programme, Funded evidence
  4. Nov 2025Official estimate: 275,600 net additional homes in England from 9 July 2024 to 9 November 2025, Delivering evidence
  5. Dec 2025Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 receives Royal Assent (the manifesto ties planning reform to the target), Legislated evidence
  6. Sep 2026Official estimate: 437,900 net additional homes in England from 9 July 2024 to 20 September 2026, Delivering evidence
  7. Jul 2029End of the Parliament (editorial date), Deadline

About the cost

No official costing of the target as a whole exists, and most of the homes are expected to be built privately. Labour's costings list £20m a year for 300 new planning officers (page 127) and say policies not listed are funded from existing budgets or have no cost (page 126). Spending Review 2025 later confirmed £39bn over ten years for a new Affordable Homes Programme, which counts towards the target.

Contracts behind delivery

Public contracts an editor linked to this promise. Figures come from the contract notices and are read again every night; a change adds a new entry and never rewrites an old one.

5 contracts, £650,000 in all at their latest values; 1 awarded without competition.

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