Pagabo Report Highlights Barriers to UK Housing Delivery – supporting the Case for Industrialised Construction

A new Pagabo report, Building 1.5 Million Homes – Is It Achievable?, offers valuable insight into why the UK’s ambitious housing targets remain out of reach. Survey responses from local authorities and housing associations point to persistent obstacles including funding uncertainty, land and viability challenges, infrastructure constraints, and sector-wide skill shortages.

While the report does not focus specifically on industrialised construction, the data strongly reinforces why IC is needed. Many of the barriers highlighted—slow build-out rates, labour dependency, cost volatility, and planning inefficiencies—are precisely the challenges that modern, platform-based and offsite manufacturing approaches are designed to overcome.

For organisations exploring how to accelerate delivery, improve predictability and build resilience into their programmes, this research provides compelling contextual evidence for adopting industrialised construction as a core part of the solution.

Link to the download page at Pagabo directly, or download it from Ottersbrook below.

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