England sees 102,830 new homes built in 2010 – we built more in 1875
Well there we have it. 2010 was another awful year for building new private homes in England with fewer than 81,000 completed, compared with almost 154,000 in the peak year of 2007. And look closer into the latest official house building figures and we see than in many of the English regions, particularly in the North, the level of private house building is now running well below half of what it was in 2007. When you add in the homes…