South Kesteven, Rutland, East Lindsey and Lincoln need more houses to be built each year to meet Government targets

Some local councils need to double the number of new houses built to meet government targets.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced, at the end of last year, an ‘ambitious’ target of building 1.5million new homes in England over five years.

To do this the government has set annual housing targets for each local authority, and the councils in South Kesteven, Rutland, East Lindsey and Lincoln - if they continue at their current average - are all behind, according to data compiled by the BBC.

The target for Rutland of 266 new homes a year is more than double what the authority has been delivering on average since 2021.

The authority is currently not meeting its 10 year housing supply, which was used as one of the reasons for approving the 650-home Quarry Farm development for the edge of Stamford.

But overall it only approved 67% of planning applications for housing over a one-year period ending June 2024.

The most demanding target locally is for Lincoln, which needs almost three times as many new homes than its current average.

East Lindsey has been ordered to almost double home built and South Kesteven is also behind and has been set a target of increasing homes built from an average of 567 a year to 895.

South Kesteven did, however, approve 80% of planning applications for housing in the year to June 2024, which is higher than the national rate of 71%.

If they continue at their current average Boston Borough and North Kesteven are not far off reaching the targets while South Holland and West Lindsey are significantly exceeding them.

The figures, compiled by BBC Verify, are calculated using the number of annual net additional homes required, the number of net additional homes created on average each year since 2021 and recent residential planning decisions by councils.