A very British fix

In the end it was the numbers wat won it. Following weeks of speculation and back and…

Progress for London housebuilding policy…but the clock is ticking

The government and City Hall deserve credit for taking the first difficult steps to reversing this generational…

Make viability great again

There’s been a lot of chatter about planning reforms.  How effective they may or may not be…

National housing policy is dysfunctional we must rewire to get building

How does bad policy get made? The development sector has weathered more than its fair share in…

New Towns could be great, or could be housing’s HS2

Just over a week ago the Government published its blueprint for the next wave of New Towns. …

We are in ICU and need emergency (planning) surgery

I have been reflecting on the recent propviews article which draws out the astonishing stat that…

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…

35% of nothing

Last week, during an in-depth feature for Inside Housing, Deputy Mayor for Housing Tom Copley made the…

Devolution deficits

The UK takes a long time to do anything.  Local government watchers will know that successive administrations…