Britain’s 10 biggest housebuilders have increased the amount of land they hold with planning permission by about a fifth during the past decade, as political pressure grows on the sector to build more homes.
The largest housebuilders held nearly 399,000 plots of land with some form of planning permission in 2016, compared with just over 330,000 in 2006, according to a new analysis from the Campaign to Protect Rural England, a charity that wants to restrict building in the countryside.
In 1998, the top 10 builders held just 230,000 plots with planning permission.
