The feasibility of building 150,000 social homes a year
Related Content The Conservative and Labour manifestos make significant pledges on housing policy. The focus of the Conservatives is supporting people into home-ownership, while the centrepiece of Labour’s manifesto is the pledge that local authorities build many more...
Reviving high streets through planning reform
Related Content Changes to the planning system can make it easier for high streets to adapt to prevailing trends in how we live, work and shop. The Government is currently looking for ideas to revive high streets. Squeezed incomes, the rise of online shopping and the...
Announcing Building Beautiful Month
We’re delighted to announce that this November will be “Building Beautiful Month” at Policy Exchange, the next stage of our efforts to address the housing crisis, the major domestic policy issue of the day. It is part of a new focus on Place – one of our four Ps,...
Government’s council housing policy is welcome, but it also raises questions
Yesterday’s announcement that the cap on local authority borrowing for the building of new homes will be removed is welcome. As the Prime Minister outlined in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference, “There is a government cap on how much [local...
