Guinness Partnership completed less than half the number of homes it had been aiming to build in 2021/22 as it battled supply chain issues.

The 64,000-home housing association, in its accounts for the year to 31 March completed just 410 homes in the year compared to a target of 835. It started work on 1,027 homes, missing it target of 2,484 by a wide margin.

It said: “Completions and starts on site during the year were adversely affected by labour and material supply chain issues and some developers reprofiled completions of affordable homes on their schemes.”