{"id":398869,"date":"2026-01-30T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:17:08","slug":"bbc-verify-tracking-shows-eight-sanctioned-russian-tankers-currently-in-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398869\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify: Tracking shows eight sanctioned Russian tankers currently in English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do we track progress on Labour\u2019s pledge of 1.5 million new homes?published at 11:12 GMT<\/p>\n

11:12 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Daniel Wainwright
BBC Verify senior data journalist<\/p>\n

For much of the past 19 months, it has been clear that Labour\u2019s pledge to build 1.5 million homes in England by the next election would be difficult to meet.<\/p>\n

However, new figures shared with BBC Verify<\/a> point to a potential sharp rise in demand. Data from Planning Portal, the website used to submit planning applications, shows applications for more than 335,000 homes outside London in 2025 – up 60% in a year. Applications in London fell by almost a third last year, returning near to 2023 levels. <\/p>\n

This is an early stage in a process that can take years and many applications will be withdrawn, amended or rejected.<\/p>\n

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BBC Verify also tracks how many new homes are built using energy performance certificates (EPCs), which are required for all new properties and broadly follow the official figures – although they can be issued before a home is complete and occupied.<\/p>\n

The latest data shows 202,803 new EPCs in 2025, down from 208,072 in 2024 \u2013 well short of the 300,000 a year needed.<\/p>\n

But registrations in the second half of 2025 were slightly higher than a year earlier. <\/p>\n

Ministers say it will take time to ramp up house-building as many homes completed since the election were started under Conservative planning policies.<\/p>\n

See the figures for your local area in our housing tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How do we track progress on Labour\u2019s pledge of 1.5 million new homes?published at 11:12 GMT 11:12 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}