Senior industry figures believe the country’s building regulations need to be overhauled in order to reflect developments in modern methods of construction (MMC) if the technology is to be used in meeting ambitious housing targets.

Sitting before MPs on the housing, communities and local government committee in Westminster yesterday, Taylor Wimpey’s group operations director Jennie Daly (pictured) said that while approved documents A and B focused on traditional methods of construction, MMC was “left to interpretation to a degree, which is not particularly helpful around compliance”.