Labour will bring back mandatory housing targets with a consultation on reforming the National Planning Policy Framework to take place before the end of the month, Rachel Reeves has announced in her first major speech as chancellor.

Mandatory targets were scrapped in December last year when then-housing secretary Michael Gove published his much-delayed NPPF, but in a speech this morning Reeves made clear that these changes would be reversed as part of a suite of reforms to planning policy, which also included an end to the de-facto ban on onshore wind development.