I wrote this last night, and this morning I see that after a year’s investigation the Competition and Markets Authority has said precisely the same thing. Please someone make me dictator of the UK an… (View Post)

As seen here on here, Tokyo suggests this is not correct. As do Houston and various Southern US cities. And successful British cities - which is really just London and Edinburgh - are outliers in ter… (View Post)

Developers land-bank because the planning and development process is so protracted and unpredictable. It becomes a form of insurance. Britain literally incentivises an oligopoly of developers to land… (View Post)

It makes sense from an incentives perspective AND a sense of fair play, to fix this anomaly. That Britain hasn’t done so suggests that Whitehall stopped caring about either some time ago. (View Post)

I kind of bridle at this idea that Britain uniquely can’t manage to build higher because of some innate preference. You don’t mean to imply that, but many do. Large swathes of London Zone 2 - Zone 2!… (View Post)