John Callcutt has claimed that new proactive partnerships between local authorities, developers, stakeholders and communities are essential to meeting the government’s housebuilding targets, in his anticipated review of housebuilding delivery, published on November 22. The review, which is the product of an extensive, yearlong consultation exercise, concludes that the industry does have the capacity to deliver 240,000 zero carbon homes a year by 2016, but recommends a series of 37 measures aimed at boosting the supply pipeline. <br><br>Delivery must be focused on brownfield land and further regenerating towns and cities, and doing so through new business models based on partnership approaches, said Callcutt, who is former chief executive of English Partnerships, and prior to that Crest Nicholson. “Mutual suspicion between local authorities and developers gets us nowhere. We need to establish strong partnerships and relationships with local communities earlier in the development process. The new Homes and Communities Agency will play a pivotal role in supporting local authority partnerships,”he said. But Berkeley md Tony Pidgeley said the concept would still need to address the highly politicised problem of gaining planning consent. “When are we going to get the minister and everyone in the industry to address this planning problem? <br><br>Even …