A lack of investment into the water and sewerage infrastructure may see Scotland face a housing crisis over the next ten years, according to a Scottish housing industry group.

The homes building umbrella group, Homes for Scotland who represents 95% of house building firms in Scotland, accused the Scottish Executive of overseeing decline and blamed the planning system, along with the lack of water infrastructure.

"The Executive states it wants 230,000 houses by 2016, but our studies show that only 11% will have sufficient drainage capacity to allow this to happen," said Homes for Scotland director David Sutherland.

Home for Scotland, believes that the country needs to build 35,000 homes a year to ensure availability and housing affordability.

But the Scottish Executive plans only 15,000 homes a year to 2014. Allan Lundmark of HFS said, "The executive doesnt seem to realise that building 15,000 homes will not put meet the demographic needs, never mind the market demand. If production does fail, house price inflation would escalate, problems of affordability would be exacerbated and more than 30,000 jobs would disappear at a stroke.

He adds: "We are facing a housing crisis in Scotland because of this problem. We cannot build new homes without the water and sewerage infrastructure."