All policy articles
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CommentThe cost of rectifying the building safety crisis is immense, but the cost of inaction is far greater
Gavin Smart reflects on the lessons the sector must learn from the Grenfell tragedy
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CommentCompulsory purchase order changes are not a quick fix to deliver more homes
Labour’s manifesto promised to reform compulsory purchase compensation rules to improve land assembly for housing. Ian Barnett explains why this is a tricky area.
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CommentNew homes shouldn’t be responsible for policy failures elsewhere
Housing delivery should not be restricted because of a lack of planning, for instance around water, argues Paul Smith
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NewsHouse of Lords committee launches inquiry into government’s ‘grey belt’ plans
Peers will examine Labour’s ‘golden rules’ for development on the green belt
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CommentGovernment should resource shared ownership in the same way ministers once funded Help to Buy
Shared ownership has been notably absent from Labour’s policy programme, this should change, writes Peter Hawley
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NewsGovernment plans to limit landowner profits on green belt sales
New legislation will change compulsory purchase rules
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CommentHow we can improve planning under Labour
Ministers must be wary of unintended consequences when pushing ahead with planning reforms, writes Ben Derbyshire
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CommentWill Labour’s planning reforms deliver new homes or just new planning permissions?
The new government will need to marry planning reform with other interventions in order to meet its housing targets, argues Rory Stracey
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CommentIn the rush to build 1.5 million homes how do we safeguard quality?
Starmer’s government wants to build at a speed and scale not seen since the 1970s, but the building spurts of the past resulted in homes of dubious quality, warns Denise Chevin
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News‘The will is absolutely there’: Major housebuilders meet Reeves for high-level discussions ahead of King’s Speech
Berkeley, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey representatives among delegation that went to Downing Street last week
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CommentElection results have created a real opportunity for step-change in tackling the housing emergency
Elly Hoult sets out some interventions the new government could make to boost housing delivery
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CommentWhat makes a successful new town?
Samuel Hughes explores the key elements of successful new towns through history and how these lessons might inform the new government’s housing strategy
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CommentWill Labour backbenchers try to block planning reform?
The election result means many traditionally anti-development constituencies now have Labour MPs with small majorities. Will they oppose Starmer’s green belt plans? And if so will he stand up to them, asks Paul Smith.
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NewsSector welcomes Labour’s planning overhaul and reintroduction of mandatory housing targets
Major housing associations, councils and housebuilders react to new government’s first major policy announcement
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NewsFormer Conservative minister Nick Boles reportedly in line to be made Labour planning tsar
Nick Boles switched party allegiance after mini-budget
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CommentWhy Starmer should look to Milton Keynes for new towns inspiration
As Labour stands on the brink of power, Lee Shostak and John Walker give six lessons for the party on how it can meet its pledge to ‘build a new generation of new towns’
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CommentHow voters look at housing as an election issue: a short history
Ben Marshall of polling firm Ipsos looks at how housing has ranked as a priority for the electorate over the decades and what it says about the gap between politicians and people
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CommentWhat should co-design in the local planning process look like?
Rather than standardising physical parameters, authority-wide design codes should be utilised by the next government as a “patchwork of participation”, writes Ben Derbyshire
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CommentWe need a national, collective vision for delivering homes
Unlike with the NHS, there is no clear idea of what we are trying to achieve from housing policy, writes David Orr
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CommentA Labour government can’t rely on ‘grey belt’ delivery alone to achieve a step-change in housing delivery
We will need to build on green belt land that does not fit neatly into Keir Starmer’s ‘grey belt’ definition, writes Katy Davis