Are fair energy bills the building blocks for housing growth?

Housebuilding has always been synonymous with a buoyant construction sector and news that Sir Keir Starmer is pressing ahead with the development of new towns across the country is music to the ears of an industry facing fresh challenges.

Energy Solicitors Limited (ESL) recognises the financial constraints facing construction firms looking to create our communities’ homes of the future — and the established litigation specialist is constantly fighting their corner in the quest for fair and transparent energy pricing.

With competitive contracts in place, companies are in a position to pivot and pitch for the work required to tackle the nation’s housing crisis.

And after the Prime Minister pointed to King Charles’ groundbreaking housing projects in Dorset and Cornwall as the inspiration for as many as 12 new towns nationwide, ESL’s Victoria Myers said: “This is the opportunity housebuilders have been waiting for.

“There is a clear need for a greater range of affordable housing and the UK has the firms capable of meeting demand. But every penny counts and having a competitive advantage as a result of digging into the detail of potentially mis-sold energy contracts can make all the difference.”

Labour is promising ‘the largest housebuilding programme since the post-war era’ as it looks to make good on pre-election promises to provide a greater number of affordable homes.

Earlier this month the Prime Minister joined the King on a tour of the latter’s Georgian-style 4,000 home development in Nansledan. And Sir Keir sees the Cornish community as a blueprint for new towns nationwide — with more than 100 locations across England already under consideration.

“I’m really interested in [the King’s housing schemes] and that’s why I wanted to go and see it,” said the Labour leader. “I was struck by the quality of the build, the variety and the fact that you couldn’t tell which was social housing.

“This is about more than bricks and mortar. It’s about the security and stability that owning your own home brings. I know what this means for working people — the roof above our head was everything for our family growing up.”