‘Wartime spirit is needed to fix shortage of new homes’
BRITAIN must rekindle a “wartime spirit” to get more new homes built, says a Government housing advisor.
Ex-Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin said we need the attitude taken by Lord Beaverbrook to making Second World War Spitfires.
He said: “Beaverbrook got to work and just mobilised a lot of people so that all the things you needed for Spitfires were got into the right bit of the factory. Britain depended on it. It’s not happening now.” An extra 80,000 houses a year are needed to hit the 300,000 target. Sir Oliver also said a five-year plan is needed to train up 15,000 extra bricklayers. But he said developers were using delay tactics to keep prices up. His recommendations will be published today in a draft analysis of his review.