Property developers Shanly Homes have challenged the Chancellor Philip Hammond over his budget commitment to build 300,000 new homes a year.

The company has just finished the Thameside development at Thames Side in Windsor and operates extensively in the Thames Valley with ongoing schemes in Slough and Maidenhead.

But Shanly's finance director Nick Trott said: "It is easy enough to quote numbers but we would like to hear how this will be managed. We already have a severe skills shortage within the housebuilding industry which is only going to be exacerbated by Brexit."

He also hit out at Mr Hammond's claim that developers had to be stopped from 'banking' land, saying: "The Chancellor's comments on land banking continues to show the Government's lack of understanding of the industry."

He said his company tried to start building as soon as it could but was frustrated by bottlenecks which built up during the planning process because local authorities were so understaffed.