The specialist programme established last year has already helped 100,000 new homes on large developments previously stuck in the planning system.

The team will now tackle specific problems on six new sites at Orchard Grove, in Somerset, Wisley Airfield in Guildford, North Leigh Park in Wigan and Hampden Fields in Aylesbury, alongside two further sites in London at Billet Road and High Road West.

The six sites will see construction accelerated on 12,000 homes.

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, Angela Rayner said: “We are continuing to take decisive action through our New Homes Accelerator to speed up the delivery of homes, meet our stretching 1.5 million homes target through the Plan for Change, and get spades in the ground to turn the tide on the housing crisis.”