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As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK governments. From Blair’s New Labour and Cameron’s Coalition government to the 2016 Housing and Planning Act, Bowie demonstrates how successive governments have failed to provide adequate, affordable housing, leading to a chronic lack of provision.
Exploring the inter-relationship between housing, planning and land policies, Bowie puts forward a reform programme based on an alternative set of policy priorities and delivery mechanisms, arguing the case for an integrated approach on land, taxation, planning and public investment to provide radical solutions to a growing crisis.
Section 1: The context;
Conservative government policy and the Housing and Planning Act 2016;
Critiques of the current direction of government policy;
The failure of governments since 1979 and the ideological continuities;
Section 2: The crisis of housing supply;
The housing deficit;
Affordable by whom?;
The wrong kind of homes;
The ineffecient use of the existing stock;
The failure of the English planning system;
Section 3: There is an alternative;
A radical programme for reform;
Conclusion: The four key issues.