Housing & Planning
Latest Housing & Planning Publications
A new settlement between government and independent housing associations
Policy Exchange argues that Housing Associations should be given more freedoms to build so that the Government can meet its housing target.
The Homes London Needs: Part 3
The Homes London Needs: Part 3 makes a number of recommendations to improve London’s housing crisis to the next Mayor of London. These include: rewriting the London Housing Strategy and the London Plan, and building on brownfield sites and post-war estates.
The Homes London Needs: Part 2
The Homes London Needs: Part 2 explores changing the way some commercial land is used, looking especially at underused (surplus) private industrial land, public land and other brownfield land.
Latest Housing & Planning Blogs
Why Government Plans to Revive the Garden City Tradition Are Welcome
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research and Economics and Social Policy — discusses how the Government’s proposal picks up on thinking that Policy Exchange has long encouraged
House building in the North
Policy Exchange’s Housing and Planning Unit examines the importance of house building to the ‘Northern Powerhouse’.
The local support we found for the garden villages Britain needs
Christopher Walker, Policy Exchange’s Head of Housing, Planning and Urban Policy, summarises the growing support for his proposals in the report Garden Villages, and through his survey found local authorities to be in favour.
Latest Housing & Planning News
Policy Exchange’s Susan Emmett appears on BBC The Week in Westminster to discuss social housing
Policy Exchange’s Head of Housing and Urban Regeneration, Susan Emmett, appeared on BBC The Week in Westminster to discuss social housing.
Susan Emmett appointed head of Policy Exchange’s Housing and Urban Regeneration unit
Policy Exchange is delighted to welcome Susan Emmett as the new Head of our Housing and Urban Regeneration Unit. She will be working closely with Richard Blakeway, who is the Unit’s Chief Adviser
Richard Blakeway appointed as Chief Adviser on Housing and Urban Regeneration policy
Policy Exchange is delighted to announce that the appointment of Richard Blakeway as Chief Adviser to its new Housing and Urban Regeneration Unit. Richard was Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property at the Greater London Authority for eight years, overseeing the Mayor of London’s housing strategy, funding and land regeneration
Latest Housing & Planning Events
How Does Britain Build Enough Homes to Meet Demand?
Oct 3, 201618.00 – 19.00
Policy Exchange Marquee (ENT 1), The ICC, Cambridge Street, B1 2NP
Housing: what do we want from the new Government?
Jul 13, 2016Policy Exchange discusses the challenges facing the housing sector and what do we want from the new Government.
City And the Citizen: Building for Community
May 18, 2016Policy Exchange host a discuss on the scale and pace of change needed for the UK to achieve its future decarbonisation goals.
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