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
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.
A policy guide to what we can expect from Labour under Jeremy Corbyn
Policy Exchange’s research units set out in brief what Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership could mean for the Labour party in the areas of economics and financial policy; devolution; housing; transport; energy and climate change; and education.
Latest Housing & Planning News
Why Mr Osborne’s ‘good settlement’ for education will mean extra cuts for thousands of schools
Jonathan Simons, Policy Exchange’s Head of Education, is quoted by the TES saying that the Spending Review will feel like a good settlement in the education sector, although some academies will face real terms funding reductions.
“We are the builders”: Osborne promises 400,000 new homes and vows to tackle Britain’s “crisis in home ownership”
Chris Walker, Policy Exchange’s Head of Housing & Planning, is quoted by the Daily Mail saying that George Osborne’s Spending Review announcements are not enough to solve the housing crisis, and that further planning reform is needed to release more land for development.
A big reform of Britain’s housing associations could hit the poor
Estimates by Chris Walker, Policy Exchange’s Head of Housing & Planning, that greater freedoms for housing associations would allow them to build 100,000 houses a year are cited in The Economist.
Latest Housing & Planning Events
How Does Britain Build Enough Homes to Meet Demand?
Oct 3, 201611.00 – 12.00
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.