Developers hog land for record 130,000 homes, analysis reveals

New powers are needed to end land banking, Labour says, because of the record gap between planning permission granted and the number of homes built.The record gap between planning permissions granted and new homes being built has led to calls for tough new penalties to be enforced against developers that sit on land rather than build.Earlier this year, it was reported that Labour was considering forcing landowners to give up sites for a fraction of their value in an effort to slash the cost of c