Black Swans, Transmission Impacts and Ceasefires – Part 4
There was much relief when a ceasefire of sorts was announced earlier this week. But it doesn’t…
Shelter, viability and the myth of the “free lunch” in land
With the development sector sustaining significant losses, sites stalling and the industry contracting, it was both poorly…
Black Swans and the Planning System: Why Profit Caps Don’t Work in Housing
One of the persistent assumptions in the UK planning debate is that…
Big Capital, a retrospective
Nearly a decade after the publication of Anna Minton’s book Big Capital, Who Is London For,…
Britain Doesn’t Need More Paper. It Needs Permissions.
If Westminster’s rumour mill is to be believed, the new National Planning Policy Framework and the long-promised…
Everything you have always wanted to know about funding home building (but were afraid to ask)
The UK housing development sector is being decapitalized. Evidence? The thousands of homes in static consents across…
A very British fix
In the end it was the numbers wat won it. Following weeks of speculation and back and…
The View from Downe: What Nigel Farage’s Village Tells Us About His Housing Politics
If you want to know how Nigel Farage might think about housing, you have to leave Westminster…
Devolution deficits
The UK takes a long time to do anything. Local government watchers will know that successive administrations…
Why London stopped building
Two weeks ago, London focused furniture company David Phillips went into administration. The business, roughly 25 years,…
