We moved away from such 'centralised' planning in the 80s. Once of the great tragedies of the Council House sell offs was it was a superb opportunity to invest in new development but the ha… (View Post)

Indeed but if central government were to provide the initial investment capital then after that it becomes a self sustaining system. (View Post)

I think so - and I hope so. But from what I have seen they seem to be planning on desiganting areas for development but gthen leaving it up to the developers to actually do the building. Which is not… (View Post)

It is actually not difficult to get permission at all. Developers are sitting on hundreds of thousands of plots with planning permissin and are not developing them. And this is not just churn. The nu… (View Post)

As I repeat regularly, we should adopt the Dutch system where local authorities buy the land, put all the infrastructure in and then back charge developers or individual housebuilders as part of the … (View Post)