It’s too difficult to build one-off homes in urban areas. A new category of planning application is needed to lower the barriers for single family houses.
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Balancing the Books
How the use of quadratic voting could help moderate the public’s attitude towards planning applications for new homes.
Some planning committee members have a mindset of ‘planning by vibes’ rather than being led by policy. No wonder the government is keen to address this.
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Housing Delivery Test 2023
A brief analysis of the Housing Delivery Test scores from 2023, which were published in December.
The publication of the revised National Planning Policy Framework in December 2024 was accompanied by a new set of Housing Targets for each of England’s unitary, district and borough authorities. Much has been made of the new targets by rural councils, claiming that these will require large areas of countryside will need to be “concreted […]
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Cornering the Market
Some thoughts on a “brownfield passport” and the potential for corner plots to rapidly deliver suburban intensification.
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Right on Target
Why concerns about the effect of the new government’s housing targets on the countryside are misplaced
How planning authorities’ online portals demonstrate bias against new development.
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Towards a Suburban Renaissance
How lessons from Croydon can be applied to London’s suburbs to deliver thousands of new homes through modest intensification.
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Small Sites, Big Ambitions
How suburban intensification can quickly deliver new homes.
The London mayor should point out that the green belt is an anachronism and that a million homes could be built by sacrificing just 1 per cent of it.
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Off the Rails
Making the most of existing transport infrastructure must be a priority for Labour – even if it is in the Green Belt.
In tearing up the council’s innovative design guide for development at its fringes, Jason Perry has prevented the benign construction of urgently needed housing in his borough
How to support new homes in your local area
Placing requirements on suburban boroughs to do more to help meet the capital’s housing needs could have made a huge difference.