The chief executive of Cala Homes has said the lack of planning permissions is a bigger concern for the housebuilding industry than a shortage of skills. Speaking to Construction News, Alan Brown (pictured) said: "Why worry about something that is three years down the line?" He said the housebuilding industry and government should be concerned about the low levels of planning permissions. "It's not as if there are 500,000 planning approvals out there that the industry can't build because of a skills shortage or supply chain problem," he said. "The only reason we can't build enough houses is because there aren't enough planning permissions." The high-end housebuilder has a landbank of around 13,500 plots. "There's not a single site that I'm not building on, that I can build on," Mr Brown added. He said the housebuilding industry "was going in the right direction of travel" with the "brave" implementation of the National Planning Policy Framework.
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