Housing | Conservative Home

We continue our series, putting this year’s local elections under the magnifying glass to find changes and trends.

Ensuring that everyone has a decent, affordable and secure home is one of the fundamental public policy challenges of our time.

Some of the arguments for a directly elected or mayoral model seem to be set up against a straw man.

The Design Codes will ensure the quality of the development – and an umistakeable sense of belonging.

We need a new cross-departmental task force for flood-risk development, overseen by a new ministerial post.

Dilapidated sheds lining disused back alleys have enormous potential to become charming mews lined with cottages.

House price growth is driving many Londoners to move out. The Mayor is failing to respond to this – or to the other challenges we face.

Central to the whole debate is the question of people’s buy in to what the transition means for their own lifestyle.

Approval for the idea provided welcome relief from the dirigiste gushing at the select committee hearing this week.

A proper regulator would be a simple way to hugely improve life for many thousands of people.

The Government should apply the same energy it has towards achieving Net Zero on Getting Housing Done.

Not just bricks and wood, but fabric. Councils can reduce carbon emissions by delivering development in this way.

Government requires a new spatial strategy for deciding where and how investment should be made.

We have the on-the-ground experience to put public money to effective use and ensure it delivers for all.

For those of us living in the countryside, there was little new to get excited about in the Chancellor’s Budget.

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