Dame Kate Barker has been appointed to lead a new inquiry into England’s housing supply by thinktank Radix, with the support of law firm Shoosmiths.

Dame Kate Barker describes it as “depressing” that many of the problems she identified in her 2004 review remain, and emphasises that a “pragmatic overthink is overdue”. 

Twenty years on from Barker’s review into housing supply and land use planning for the last Labour government, the economist will lead another review into housing supply.