
Alex Morton
Head of Housing, Planning & Urban Policy, 2010-2013

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Let’s have more self-build housing – and quick
by Alex Morton | Mar 15, 2013
These days, politics is a gloomy business. Politicians talk of endless austerity and squeezed middles. The general public despair of the main parties. Unfortunately, this pessimism is often justified. Consider housing. The low level of housing (last year we started...
Turning housing round
by Alex Morton | Feb 22, 2013
Terrible news. There is no other way to describe the fact that housing starts fell by 11% in 2012 to below 100,000 new homes a year. The current deplorable state of affairs is also depressingly predictable. In 2010, in Making Housing Affordable, we argued that the...
Crisis? What Crisis? Why Andrew Lilico is wrong to say the UK has no shortage of housing
by Alex Morton | Dec 13, 2012
On Tuesday, Andrew Lilico argued there is no shortage of housing in London and the South East. His evidence was “a surplus of dwellings over households”. He pleaded “Will everyone stop talking about a housing shortage”. Now, Andrew is a great guy (and a former...
Don’t blame developers: Britain’s planning system pushes up prices
by Alex Morton | Sep 7, 2012
During recent planning rows, opponents of reform have argued that our lack of new homes was nothing to do with our 1940s planning system, but a case of greedy developers sitting on land with planning permission. Yesterday, the Local Government Association argued that...Support Us
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