Yet another article on the biggest myth in British housing discourse. Council (and private) housebuilding started to decline over a decade before Right to Buy, as the planning system (which already walloped supply in 1947) tightened yet further with the spread of the green belt:
Yet another article on the biggest myth in British housing discourse. Council (and private) housebuilding started to decline over a decade before Right to Buy, as the planning system (which already walloped supply in 1947) tightened yet further with the spread of the green belt: https://t.co/q2u3qKKY7C
@AntBreach the 47-80 peak is pretty closely aligned to the New Town provision which was a pretty specific effort to build mass housing. Time for a re-boot?
@JohnPeg83296785 @AntBreach And wasn't the land for new towns bought at existing use prices, not a the price applicable for land with planning permission for housing?
@GrahamEvans2 @AntBreach I think so, but I also think we are now at the point where we have to act and buy out at current values or a bit of uplift over time (market +10%). A bit of strategic farm buying and CPO's...
@JohnPeg83296785 @AntBreach Agreed. I would then establish a detailed design brief in which land would be sold at market rates to private developers and social housing providers (perhaps at a discount for the latter) - also to developers of some commercial properties. /1