“Fully expected and anticipated in opposition.” That is how Matthew Pennycook described the collapse in housing delivery this week, to a room of developers at UKREiiF in Leeds. On stage: ministers, panels, glossy brochures about unlocking delivery and the biggest affordable housing push in a generation. Off stage: Homes England emailing providers to say they […]
This is not a minor offence. It is the latest instalment in a decades-long project to pollute British housing discourse with bad economics dressed up as moral conviction, and the BBC, to its considerable shame, has just published it. Alice Roberts of CPRE London, the capital’s arm of the countryside-protection lobby that has spent the
How Lloydism risks detonating the master developer model, triggering a land strike, and leaving Britain’s housing pipeline in institutionalised purgatory I. The Doctrine That Survived Every Failure The December 2024 NPPF arrived with immediate effect, in its attempt to reset the planning landscape overnight. But in an irony the government did not intend, some of
If Westminster’s rumour mill is to be believed, the new National Planning Policy Framework and the long-promised National Development Management Policies will finally emerge this week. Matthew Pennycook could well be giving these documents a final review, which in Whitehall usually means the environmental lobby has arrived at the gates, waving spreadsheets of bat data