‘Zero chance’ of building 300,000 homes a year without modular, TopHat chair tells Lords

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Hearing came after high-profile failures in MMC sector

The government cannot deliver on its housing targets without supporting category one modular building, the chairof TopHat has told the House of Lords. 

At a Built Environment Committee hearing on recent failures in the modern methods of construction (MMC) sector, Carl Leaver said the shrinking labour market meant it would be impossible to build 300,000 homes each year without industrialisation of housebuilding. 

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