The most important policy of Boris Johnson’s new government may be one that wasn’t in the manifesto at all. Today’s news that the government intends radical planning reform is...
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The Economist
Rebalancing Britain: Don’t count on new towns to regenerate the regions
‘Rebalancing Britain’ is a major collaboration between CapX and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation focusing on how the Government should tackle the longstanding imbalances in...
Residential Investor
Is ‘local housing for local people’ a good strategy?
“So many of the parishes in our district are merrily approving more houses around their village,” an official from Oxfordshire fumed to me last month, “and that’s against Council...
Residential Investor
Robert Jenrick – the quiet radical now in charge of housing
Robert Jenrick, the new Secretary of State for Housing, wrote a striking call in 2017 to boost home ownership by building homes on government land and selling them at cost to the...
The Economist
Reports of the green belt’s death are greatly exaggerated
As the “news” breaks that perhaps nearly one per cent of the enormous green belt surrounding London has been allocated for 200,000 homes, let us ask: who benefits? News of...
The Economist
Sadiq Khan should reduce rents with more homes, not emit hot air about caps
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is reported to be considering bringing in rent controls. It is not clear that he has power to do that, or how it would work. Rent control might...