Is the housing crisis just too big a problem for politics to crack?

Simon Rawlinson New

The recently published National Planning Policy Framework highlights how difficult housing reform can be. Can we expect better from the outcome of a general election, asks Simon Rawlinson

Given that we have only recently emerged from the Christmas break, here is a classic cracker joke: “How do you eat an elephant? The answer, of course, is: “In small pieces”.

Michael Gove seems to be a fan of the joke as “in small pieces” appears to be the latest solution to England’s planning conundrum, unveiled by the secretary of state at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities as part of the updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) published last month.

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