<p>The number of permissions for new home sites has dropped to a “record low”, according to the Home Builders Federation, “<span>as the government’s anti-development policies start to bite”, it said.</span><span></span></p> <p><span>HBF’s latest <a href="http://www.hbf.co.uk/news/planning-permissions-for-new-home-sites-fall-to-record-low-and-will-plunge-further-55-local-authorities-withdraw-housing-plans-following-government-capitulation-to-nimbys/">Housing Pipeline report</a>, covering Q4 2022 and prepared by Glenigan, reveals that the number of projects granted permission fell below </span>3,000 for the first time since the data set began in 2006. During 2022, the number of housing <span>project </span>permissions fell to below 12,500, “well below” the 21,000 that were consented in 2017.</p> <p>The report shows a particular drop in permissions in Northern England – these have declined 22% year-on-year. HBF said this undermined “any attempts to use housebuilding, a known economic driver, to support the government’s levelling up agenda”. </p> <p>HBF said this data reflected a period “before the impact of the government’s latest capitulation to the NIMBY wing of the Conservative party even started to kick in”. It pointed to <a href="https://hbf.co.uk/redirect/14510c18/34e2cd3eaf6749a98f0afc0d6b865c30/"><span>55 local authorities</span></a> which have withdrawn or halted their local plans upon the government’s moves on planning, including 17 since the housing secretary Michael Gove announced revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) at the end of last year.</p> <p>HBF said that of …