New housing proposals could deliver fewer homes than ever before, director of the Town and Country Planning Association, Gideon Amos, has warned. Chairing a national housing conference in London, Amos said: "Instead of addressing the crisis of housing shortages, so well documented in the Barker Review, politicians are in danger of going into reverse - giving rise to the risk that in the south east at least we shall soon be building fewer homes than at any time since records began." Pointing out that in 2003 the HBF has warned that housebuilding in England was at its lowest level since the WW1 Amos pointed to recent proposals in the south east which would reduce the number of homes to be provided in the region on those planned four years ago (34,500) to a figure as low as 25,500. If falls in the planned number of homes continue, levels will plummet to their lowest point since records began before the WW1.