5,000 new homes are being provided alongside our waterways in the next five years. The proceeds are used to keep our canals, rivers, reservoirs, and docks in good repair.
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State land banking: Natural England owns 470,000 acres
It is quite possible to build attractive new homes – and to use some of the proceeds to enhance the environment.
State land banking: The Mayor of London is sitting on 1,576 acres
That figure doesn’t include Transport for London’s land – which totals 5,700 acres, equivalent to the size of Camden.
State land banking: The Ministry of Defence owns 553,000 acres
That is bigger than the size of Surrey. The MOD also holds “rights” to another half a million acres.
State land banking: Network Rail owns 128,000 acres
Only a thousand acres are being released for housing, despite far more being surplus to requirements.
Time to get tough on state land banking
Government departments are too slow to release land for disposal – frustrating the chance for new homes.
What about state land banking?
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Matt Kilcoyne: The Conservative manifesto. Wooing Labour heartlands with socialist policy is a doomed strategy.
The first piece of a series this week about what the Conservative Manifesto should look like.
Lord Ashcroft: Special Report: St Helena – the island of fading hopes and dreams
It is an attractive destination, with a friendly population and a fascinating history, but it has been badly let down by officialdom.
Letwin’s land banking review identifies the real obstacle to housing growth – the Government.
His recommendations look likely to be accepted. Greater diversity of type and design is to be encouraged – rather than the imposition of uniformity.
Councils should challenge the NHS to sell more surplus land for homes
There is enough land for over half a million homes on derelict sites – while the health service regularly complains of a shortage of funds.
Robert Buckland: “We must speak the language of opportunity”. His lecture on Tory revival. Full text.
“The language should be that of giving people their chance to succeed and of being on their side – a “people politics” that many practice locally but which must be scaled up.”
Letwin has disclosed the extent of resistance to the sale of surplus state land
Despite his best efforts progress has been derisory. It must be given priority if the housing crisis is to be eased.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Copeland, Stoke, elections – and my coolness about cold-calling
When was the last time you answered your landline? Actually, when was the last time you talked to anyone on the phone at all – out of preference?
We ask our panel: What should be in the Autumn Statement?
Suella Fernandes, Alan Mak, Ryan Shorthouse, James Frayne, Hannah David and others give their view.