Instead of tackling the rot at the heart of the system, the housing minister has brought it into government via his advisors.
I hope I am wrong, but every last flicker of hope has been all but extinguished in Labour’s YIMBY movement. Yet those ideas still live on in the Conservatives.
Voluntary planning consultations and hearings are systematically unrepresentative. Participants are disproportionately older, wealthier, whiter, more likely to be homeowners, and far more hostile to new housing than the communities they claim to represent.