Morphet, Janice; Clifford, Benjamin; (2021) Local authority Direct Provision of Housing: Third Research Report. University College London: London, UK.

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The ‘housing crisis’ in England shows no sign of disappearing, and housing development and delivery remain important and high-profile topics. Whilst central government have remained focussed on market-led housing activity and the relationship between that and planning reform, the activity of local authorities across the country in directly delivering housing appears to be continuing to grow. In 2017 and 2019 we published reports charting the way that council-led housing development was gathering pace, led by many local authorities wanting to resolve a variety of different challenges. Much has happened since 2019 in relation to housing and planning. These various developments have meant we felt further research to track the expanding activity of local authorities in housing provision was needed. Two years after our last report, we have utilised the same mixed-methods approach to investigate how that activity has continued to expand. We have also considered additional topical questions, such as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on local authority activity, the growing focus on environmental standards in the face of climate change, and the possibility of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). Given that we have utilised an identical methodological approach (to allow ready comparison of activity between 2017, 2019 and 2021), we are referring to this as the ‘third wave’ of research into local authority direct delivery of housing. Our approach included a desk survey of publicly available information on the strategy and approach 4 of every local authority in England to direct delivery of housing, a direct survey sent by email to officers in all 343 authorities (to which we received responses from 282 individuals working in 194 different local authorities across England), twelve roundtable discussions with local government officers held across all regions and nine case studies each involving an interview with one or two officers each (the case studies being Bolsover, Brent, Cambridge, Cheltenham, Cornwall, Derbyshire Dales, Gravesham, Wigan and York).

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