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Wales maintains historically high social house building rate
Welsh housing associations continued to provide large numbers of social homes in the last financial year.
In 2016/17, 1,243 homes were completed, slightly down from 1,254 the year before.
This means Welsh housebuilding has sustained its performance from 2015/16, which still represents the most successful year this century.
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Stuart Ropke, chief executive of Community Housing Cymru, said: “We welcome the housebuilding figures released by Welsh Government today. We signed a housing supply pact with Welsh Government in December 2016, committing Welsh housing associations to build 12,500 new homes of the 20,000 target agreed in the pact.
“We will continue to work with Welsh Government to achieve these goals and, as part of the Homes for Wales coalition which has been re-launched for this month’s general election, we are also calling on the new UK government to support a welfare system that ensures everyone can access an affordable home, and to support the construction industry in light of Brexit negotiations so it can access the materials and labour it needs to build new homes.”
Overall figures for Welsh housebuilding showed a similar trend, falling to 6,833 in the past year from 6,900 in the one before. Again, the past two years represent a significant increase from previous years – 6,170 homes were completed in 2014/15.
The two-year rise in housebuilding has been driven in part by an explosion in completions in South West Wales. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire have seen 355 social homes built in the past two years between them, in comparison to 90 over the two years before that.
In Swansea, meanwhile, 256 social homes have been built in the past two years, in comparison to 105 in the two years previous.
