Extra 1.5m homes needed to cope with immigration

Reported in The Times today

The demand for new housing from immigrants means that 65,000 new homes — equivalent to a city the size of Peterborough — will have to be built every year for the next two decades. The study is based on an analysis of a report on household projections earlier this month by John Prescott, the deputy prime minister. The report said the number of households in England would rise from 20.9m in 2003 to 25.7m in 2026, an annual growth of 209,000. Critics say the overall increase of nearly 5m homes — or 23% — will place a huge burden on the public sector, with billions of pounds extra required for new schools, hospitals and roads
The UK’s population is projected to rise by 7.2 million from 2004 to 2031 – 6.0 million (83%) of this rise is due to immigration.That’s equivalent to two cities the size of Cambridge every year, or 6 cities the size of Birmingham over the 27 year period, needing to be built because of ethnics and immigration