Showing posts with label housing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label housing. Show all posts
Friday, 4 September 2020

Why planning permissions lapse (and how Shelter should be ashamed for opposing planning reforms)

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The former Denholme Velvets site The analysis by Shelter and the House Builders Federation shows that 40% of homes granted planning permiss...
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Sunday, 12 July 2020

The biggest transfer of wealth to the working class in our history - why right-to-buy is a great policy.

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The first thing they did was change the front door, replacing the dour municipal plank with a bright new door. Shortly they replaced the...
Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Sorry Network Homes, land seizure is not the solution to the lack of land supply

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Well I guess it's a start that some people involved in housing are talking about land. Land is becoming an ever-bigger barrier to new...
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Friday, 3 July 2020

Lockdown Living - in which the Resolution Foundation discover (and then ignore) London's housing crisis

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 The Resolution Foundation has published some work looking at what they call "Lockdown Living" , essentially a brief review of h...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2020

Build, build, build (just not in our back yard, obviously)

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Create Streets Build, build, build was the cry. Another one of those incontrovertible three word slogans beloved of political copyriter...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Unaffordable housing is not just down to low interest rates (whatever clever economists may claim)

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For years supporters of urban containment policies like the green belt and enthusiasts for more "strategic planning" have argued...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Let's build some prefabs and call them "Homes for Heroes" (Boondogglers gonna boondoggle)

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Hey, let's build some prefabs Nothing like a good boondoggle is there!? And right now the best way to get your boondoggle off the gr...
Monday, 3 February 2020

Urban densification is bad for the planet

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We're told, aren't we, that building more densely in our cities will be great for the environment. Cramming everybody into a small...
Tuesday, 17 December 2019

If you want to house the homeless, you'll have to reform the 'green belt'

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Some of that vital, precious 'green belt' Last night was shockingly cold and damp in Leeds yet, as usual, the streets of the cit...
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Monday, 25 November 2019

Why do we indulge suburban NIMBYs? A rant about housing policy.

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The precious green belt that we must preserve at all cost I was thinking about doing a careful analysis of the different political parti...
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Thursday, 21 November 2019

In which some architects discover some reasons people object to housing development

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 At a time of housing crisis, at least in some parts of the UK, it is amazing that groups of planners and architects can still find time ...
Thursday, 14 November 2019

Opposition to urban sprawl is as much about snobbery as self-interest

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The standard narrative about urban containment - the "green belt" as we call it in England - is that is persists because of the ...
Saturday, 9 November 2019

NIMBYs are destroying California. They'll do the same to London if we don't stop them.

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California, the golden land of promise, blessed by sunshine, fertility and the fruits of liberty. It's in a mess, you might even say d...
Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Whose beauty is it? If you want housing people like and want to live in you have to reform the 'green belt'

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Jack Airey the housing expert from Policy Exchange has a piece on Conservative Home about how the prime minister has said that we should ...
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Sunday, 8 September 2019

The planning system is a big reason for Britain's sluggish economy - reform it

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This can't be said to often - we have a dysfunctional planning system that sits right at the heart of our economy's sclerosis and ...
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Thursday, 15 August 2019

Councillors and MPs objecting to housing developments? Don't be the Grand Old Duke of York

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Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men; He marched them up to the top of the hill, And he marched them down again. ...
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Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Housing should be a national priority but we don't need loads more council houses.

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Council housing is 100 years old. Well actually it's quite a lot older than that and social housing provision goes back to the middle ...
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