Recommendation 16

The Department and Homes England told that they were trying to encourage the building of smaller, cheaper homes through investing in firms that build modular homes and encouraging sites with high levels of modular construction. It explained it was looking to increase demand for this type of home. However, Homes England cautioned that local authority planning committees were nervous of this type of home, so it was gathering the evidence to demonstrate to the sector that this was worthwhile and increase developer confidence.43