1.5 million new homes requires bolder reforms to planning committees 🏘️

The Government risks watering down its most important planning reform – it must hold fast.

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Zero. They all do it (in large part) by taxing the median earner.

There is no country above and to the left of the UK in this chart.

"When Keir Starmer agonises about whether to spend 2.3% or 2.5% of GDP on defence, we’re talking about a difference of roughly £5bn. The government paid eight times that just to manage energy prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

"Without a complete overhaul of the whole basis of our planning system we are never likely to build enough homes in the right places."

📰 @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social's @thetimes.com column on why the planning system needs radical action is now free to read here: ifs.org.uk/articles/str...

Calm down.

This is far too measured and sensible for either Times readers or X, but may go down better here.

Anyway it is very good...

www.thetimes.com/article/1c78...

It’s a myth that the private sector has never achieved this level of house building. It did routinely until the town and county planning act constrained building in 1946. As late as 1930 we were building nearly 3% of stock annually, mostly private.

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