The West Midlands must compete with Barcelona, Boston, and Beijing – not with London and Manchester.
Germany has come closer to managing it – but take a look at the bill: an average of £71 billion between 1990 and 2014. That’s a little more than the £2 billion Sunak was sharing out yesterday.
Attacks on targets are criticising the problem’s symptom rather than its cause – that the English planning system is not currently designed to solve the country’s housing problems.
As long as demand remains as fierce as it is in London landlords will always have the advantage, no matter the legal rights heaped on tenants.
The ultimate political problem is that people support housing in principle but not in practice. But these ‘fast tracks for beauty’ would create more homes and better places.
The Chancellor’s announcement about investment zones shows that, far from being dead, levelling up is alive and kicking in those places with the ambition to deliver.
Successive Conservative governments have delivered more powers and funding to raise up communities across the country. So too must the next.
The Secretary of State for Levelling Up reviews the Government’s plans for improving life chances and growth across the North.
Declining home ownership amongst the young is an existential threat to the Conservative Party. Yesterday’s announcements were not equal to the task.
It offers the opportunity to devolve powers directly to county and unitary authorities – rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all Metro Mayor model.
Just 7,500 new retirement housing units are delivered annually, versus Knight Frank’s estimate of a demand for 30,000.
Allegations against Gove highlight once again how hazy understandings of the term have become.
Apprenticeships aren’t always reaching the 16 to 18 year-olds who need them most
The Government should mirror Scotland and Wales in permanently liberalising rules around temporary camp sites
We know that we can do more to ensure that when we expand our housing supply, we do so in the right places, with the right infrastructure, with the support of local people and local representatives.