All policy articles – Page 4
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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
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NewsSunak’s big election gamble – how the housing sector reacted
Initial thoughts from housing leaders as the prime minister unexpectedly calls a 4 July election
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NewsIn full: Angela Rayner’s speech to UKREiiF
Labour’s deputy leader today addressed the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) event in Leeds this morning, setting out more detail about the party’s policy including New Towns. Here is the full text of the speech.
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News‘We have not built enough homes’ admits Michael Gove
Housing secretary quizzed on latest homelessness figures
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NewsThinktank says ‘mania’ for high rise development has damaged UK cities
Policy Exchange report says tall buildings do not deliver high densities as claimed, and that boom in high rises has not helped address housing crisis
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NewsLabour to unveil golden rules for building on ‘grey belt’
The policy has the potential to unlock land to build hundreds of thousands of new homes, says Knight Frank
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CommentWas Angela Rayner right to buy?
The shadow levelling-up secretary has taken flak for exercising her right to buy, but Labour too has a long history of dalliance with the concept of selling council homes, writes Ben Flatman
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In FocusThe general election race is on…what the parties are saying on housing, planning and building safety
The next general election is just months away. Housing Today looks at the key talking points.
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CommentLessons from Australia: What England’s social housing system could learn from down under
Matthew Bailes recently attended a housing conference in Melbourne. Here he compares the Australian and English social housing systems and finds much to like in the former.