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...
Policy win for Policy Exchange but Government’s insistence for good design should also be extended to style
This week’s long awaited update to government’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) announced, in the words of Secretary of State for Housing James Brokenshire, that quantity must not compromise quality when it comes to the building of new homes. The NPPF now...
Housing: why we need more than numbers
With the cost of homes in England and Wales almost eight times average annual earnings, housing has become a political issue of the first order. Homeownership declined between 2003 and 2013 before stagnating and remains beyond the reach of many, particularly younger...
