10:21 Another comment expressing disappointment that Barwell has lost his seat. Hastoe Group chief executive Sue Chalkley said: "I am very sorry that we have lost our Housing Minister Gavin Barwell, he listened, understood and had good plans for people who need homes. We hope that whoever takes on this portfolio will bring the same level of energy, passion and thoughtfulness to this challenging brief and that rural communities, one fifth of our population, will be an integral part of the housing strategy."

10:00 Chartered Institute of Housing chief executive Terrie Alafat has issued a statement praising Gavin Barwell, who lost his seat last night. She said: "We’d like to thank Gavin Barwell for the work he has done as housing minister, we appreciated his willingness to listen and work with the sector. That kind of approach is the only way we will be able to address the country’s housing challenges and build the genuinely affordable homes that we so desperately need."

09:33 Ian Anderson, executive director, Iceni Projects, said: "Theresa May gambled and lost, leaving us with uncertainty and chaos at a time when we, ironically, need a strong and stable government. We hope that a new Government can be formed quickly, especially with Brexit looming on the horizon. But, as crucial as the Brexit negotiations are, there are also important challenges facing us domestically; in particular, the housing crisis. But rather than focus on how we can build the millions of homes that this country needs, it seems we are going to have to continue with constitutional wrangling.

"Let's hope that we will soon have a new Government which is able to focus on the many challenges facing the UK, and not let the urgent crowd out the important."

09:18 Duncan Field, UK head of planning at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, said: "The day after an extraordinary night before suggests we will still have a Conservative-led government which will mean continuity in housing delivery targets (1 million homes by 2020 and an additional 500,000 homes by 2022), if not continuity in the planning and housing ministerial team.

"However the palpable sense of inequality and the deep concern about austerity, which saw voters coalesce around the Labour campaign in significant numbers, may well mean that government policy shifts towards the provision of more genuinely affordable housing options. In addition, some of the more controversial changes which both of the main parties hinted at - around the capturing of land value uplift and preventing landowners from enjoying "unearned gains" from the planning system - are now much more likely to be implemented."

08:45 Reaction from Iain Gilbey, partner and head of the planning team at Pinsent Masons. He says: "The loss of Gavin Barwell (widely acknowledged to be a good housing minster on top of his brief) will leave a vacuum that will need to be filled quickly and decisively, if momentum is to be maintained in this important area."

08:20 On Twitter, planners have been responding to the news that the news that Gavin Barwell has lost his seat.

08:15 Some of the other results from last night saw the communities secretary Sajid Javid retain his Bromsgrove seat, and former town planner Helen Hayes retain her West Dulwich and Norwood seat for the Labour Party. 

08:00 Nicola Gooch, senior associate in law firm Irwin Mitchell’s planning team, is quick off the mark with some comment on the implications of a hung Parliament for planning. "If the new government is going to achieve anything before the next election, it is going to have to embrace a new spirit of compromise," she said.

Gooch added: "If a coalition is not formed, then the most likely result is a Conservative minority government, which will need to rely on compromise, both within parliament and their own party, in order to succeed. At least in the short term, the answer, at least in planning terms, is likely to be more of the same – pushes to increase housing supply without building on the green belt. The policies that are likely to come forward are those around which you can build a consensus, so we would not expect to see anything overly contentious appear on the statute books for quite some time. In the longer term, however, we may have to wait for the results of the next election!"

07:50 The big news for planning practitioners from overnight is that the planning minister Gavin Barwell has lost his Croydon Central seat to Labour. We looked at what might happen if Barwell lost his seat, or - as seemed more likely at the time - was replaced in a post-election reshuffle, in a feature last month.

Source: Planning Resource