The value of planning permission
Summary A grant of planning permission for housing on previously agricultural land creates a huge uplift in value. This post … Read More “The value of planning permission”
Summary A grant of planning permission for housing on previously agricultural land creates a huge uplift in value. This post … Read More “The value of planning permission”
Back in 2013, in an earlier incarnation of this blog, I wrote this post. Read that post and then read … Read More ““A massive betrayal””
Several years ago I wrote a post setting out some ideas on how to ease the cost of affordable housing. … Read More “Housing stories”
There is a tendency to blame ‘the planners’ for everything that goes wrong, from dog mess to lack of public … Read More “We still need planning”
It is quite true that man lives by bread alone — when there is no bread. But what happens to … Read More “Shelter? or Investment?”
In preparing this series of posts I’ve consulted lots of documents. I’ve given a partial bibliography below, which includes I … Read More “Housing – bibliography”
The Fool on the Hill: Ultra-low impact housing and public policy.
In my last post in this series I argued that we need to increase the supply of land for housing … Read More “Housing – the Irish experience”
A series of earlier posts have looked at affordable housing, self help provision in shanty towns and at the supply … Read More “The supply of housing”
Previous posts have looked at the way we provide affordable housing in the UK and identified some problems with that … Read More “Affordable housing – supply issues”