Housing policy isn’t failing. It’s doing exactly what voters (wrongly) want.
For years, the industry has told itself a comforting story: governments and politicians might make mistakes but…
Five ideas to help supply for first-time buyers and renters in our cities
A functioning housing ladder is critical to our towns, cities and…
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…
Urban Sketch’s NPPF viability consultation response
For those yet to respond the viability reforms in the NPPF – you can find it here:…
Why “Making Social Rent Homes Viable” Is a Breakthrough — and Still a Reality Check
In the long, familiar cycle of UK housing debates, the Homes for People We Need report Making Social Rent…
The Waiting Game
How Lloydism risks detonating the master developer model, triggering a land strike, and leaving Britain’s housing pipeline…
Milton Keynes Lost: How second stairwells knocked out the UK’s brownfield housing pipeline
The idea for Place Base’s first published research emerged from a nagging desire to quantify how many…
Key Worker Living Rent: Right Fight, Wrong Time?
For those of us still floating above the waves, the Mayor has launched a new housing product:…
London Calling
London needs an anthem. Something properly earwig-y that just sticks with you all day.
