House building in the North
The new ‘Northern Powerhouse’ encompasses Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, and Hull city regions, as well as the North East. Together, these city regions – mostly combined authorities – have a population of over 10 million, bigger than London’s 8.6...
The local support we found for the garden villages Britain needs
Last year, Policy Exchange published its Garden Villages report, which proposed a new way of building the homes England needs – namely, through entirely new, small-scale, settlements of between 1,500 and 5,000 new homes each. This would be instead of just building the...
A policy guide to what we can expect from Labour under Jeremy Corbyn
On 12th September, the Labour party overwhelmingly chose Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader. Policy Exchange has taken an in-depth look at the Labour party’s policy positions on a number of key issues relevant to our own research areas. Economic and Financial Policy It...
Garden villages could help solve the housing crisis and empower local communities
Our report Garden Villages recommends a network of new village communities in predominantly rural areas to help solve the housing crisis. It suggests that if each and every one of the 200 mainly rural councils built a new garden village, then a million homes could be...
