planning Articles

Reducing planning gain and cutting the cost of building could radically alter Britain's housing market, writes Geoff Beacon I grew up in Kent in a house built by my father in 1946 on land given as a wedding present. The area had been divided into plots by the...

Labour has to make some key decisions in 2014 if housing policy is to be a significant asset to our election prospects in 2015. Labour will fight the next general election on the ‘cost of living’, arguing that most people have not gained from any meagre economic...

Amid the endless, breathless commentary from a visibly scared media ahead of publication of the Leveson report, one other story caught my eye as a strolled through the papers. ‘Swaths of green belt land sacrificed’ thundered the Telegraph in an article, at the first...

In 1879, in a legal dispute between neighbours, a judge said ‘What would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square would not necessarily be so in Bermondsey’. This pre-dated the first Planning Act by decades, but it outlined two still-relevant principles for control of...