A simple change in the Finance Bill could extend our world-leading pro-investment regime for plant and machinery to investment in new brownfield housing, and spur development in many sites currently sitting idle.
As Conservative group leader on South Gloucestershire council, our candidate knows the local issues that matter to residents, chiefly the prospect of 6,000 new homes being built on the Green Belt.
Conservatives in other countries have managed to make housing a key plank of a winning platform. Our party still has a chance to do the same.
“Our population is vastly bigger than it was after the war, and it’s absurd that our urban footprint hasn’t been able to catch up.”
The TCPA made a radical departure from the planning regulations that had gone before by introducing the concept of planning permission to Britain. Before the act, if you owned a piece of land, you could largely do what you wanted with it.
The alternative to stagnation is not turning the South of England into the next Houston or Tokyo. We need to choose where develops, and how.
As a council candidate, I used to keep my head down. But if I stand again I will be loud and clear: we need more homes more than to protect every inch of the green belt.
Ease ratios for childminders, stop making small-time carers leap through educational hoops – and face up to the fact we need to build on greenfield sites.
Far from protecting our most beautiful landscapes, it lays a noose of industrial farmland around our most productive cities.
From bin collections, to planning, to traffic schemes, residents felt their views had been ignored by an arrogant Council administration.
The Government should apply the same energy it has towards achieving Net Zero on Getting Housing Done.
A powerful coalition of the comfortably-off want to freeze this country in aspic. Ministers must resist them.
Its benefits would also extend to our own health and wellbeing.
Sooner or later this problem is going to hit the Tories – hard – due to the demographics the party needs to attract at the next election.
This has become an increasingly important issue for voters – especially swing voters and for none more so than the young, amongst whom housing now competes with the economy as one of the single most important issues.