England is heading for a housing crisis despite the government's pledge to build an extra three million homes by 2020, according to The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit. The BBC.

The independent body said at least 250,000 more are needed to help tackle the shortfall.

It said average prices in England are more than seven times average salaries.

They are set to reach nine-and-a-half times the average salary by 2026, the report suggested.

Further, even if the extra homes are built, their affordability will still get worse.

Stephen Nickell, who helped write the report, told the BBC that the 270,000 figure being called for had to be seen in context. "If you'd like to put this sort of thing into perspective we built more than that number back in the 1930s in Britain when we had a considerably smaller population,” he said