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<p>The Government is committed to delivering the right homes in the right places.
We are making progress, and latest figures show over 222,000 new homes were delivered
in 2017/18 in England - the highest level of new homes delivered in all but one of
the last 31 years. But we are determined to do more in order to deliver the homes
communities need. That is why we have set out an ambitious package of measures to
deliver 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s. These measures include over £44 billion
of financial support, planning reforms and scrapping housing revenue account borrowing
caps so councils can deliver a new generation of council housing.</p><p>Household
growth projections are used in Government’s standard method for assessing local housing
need—the starting point for establishing local housing requirements. These projections
are derived from the population projections which in turn take into account immigration,
projecting these trends forward. It is for local authorities to decide how many homes
their communities need through their plan-making process.</p>
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