A report concluded insufficient low cost property was available

The event is a response to an Affordable Rural Housing Commission report which concluded insufficient low cost property was available.

The summit is due to take place at Ebley Mill on Friday.

In June the South West Regional Assembly said nearly 460,000 homes would have to be built in the South West over the next 20 years.

The housing figures for Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire were included in its draft Regional Spatial Strategy.

Stroud's Housing Standards manager, John Shaw, said the summit would try to come up with practical solutions to the ongoing problem.