The system should be shaped by residents, small-scale developers and practitioners of good design – not lawyers, consultants and the big developers.
Housing isn’t just about somewhere to put people, it’s a deeper question about how you build a society of people who feel they have a stake and are attached to it.
Let’s put the Prince of Wales in charge of delivering a new generation of garden cities
The sweeping breadth of reform being championed by Conservative MPs is now so commonplace that it is hardly remarked upon in the newspapers.
Labour’s housing spokesman says she backs home ownership while the Labour London Assembly group say scrap Right to Buy.
We should stand up aggressively for competition and against monopoly, and remedy market failure in housing, banking and the privatised utilities.
Over 100 bedsits that had been boarded up for years are brought back into use.
Labour kept on trying to develop new towns. It didn’t work.
The council said 8,000 residents would be affected – the real figure turns out to be 631.
The Conservatives must show the will to mend a dysfunctional housing market.
Regenerating estates into traditional streets could create 250,000 extra homes in London.
As Tim Montgomerie said, “compassionate conservatives must be the agents of rescue – not just for indebted or sick economies, but for broken people too”.
“I notice that Standard and Poor is expressing quite serious worries on that front.”
Why does the BBC attack a Tory council for this but not mention Labour councils doing much the same?
It’s time to revive the Alex Morton scheme for local compensation for the construction of new homes.