You think Ed Miliband's energy policies are bad? Take a look at his housing...
Trying to get a handle on Labour's housing policy is like trying to nail jelly to a wall. But after wrestling with the subject for a few hours, I think I've got a rough picture of what they're...
View ArticleCan Ed Miliband be trusted over housing in the countryside?
It is the statistic that gives the lie to the insistence of ministers, and developers, that the planning system is the main thing standing in the way of loads of new homes: some 400,000 sites, which...
View ArticleThe homes we're building aren't good enough. How do we fix that?
One of the shared mantras of Britain's political parties is that they will build more houses. We certainly need to: the supply of new homes is far lower than the demand, and has been for decades. This...
View ArticleConservative Party Conference: Boris shows how far the Tories have drifted...
The Tory party conference opened with a tribute to Margaret Thatcher. Yet the last two days have served largely to show how far, in one key respect, the party has drifted from her vision. Boris...
View ArticleGovernment action to abandon the suburbanisation of national parks is very...
Well, it looks like a result. As reported in the Daily Telegraph, the Government is planning to exempt National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) from measures that would allow...
View ArticleWill planned estates in this Downton Abbey village finally bring home...
Tonight a local council will decide whether severely to embarrass the Prime Minister in his own backyard. For if the West Oxfordshire District Council's planning committee gives the go ahead for a new...
View ArticleHonest work can't put a roof over people's heads: true Tories should be appalled
A joint post by Anne Williams and Peter Oborne London Central Portfolio Ltd, a "Residential Funds and Asset Management" company, predict that small central London flats will cost £36 million by 2050....
View ArticleLabour's rent caps and Tory pension policies will hurt the people they're...
This morning Ed Miliband launched Labour’s European election crusade. And he did so with a pledge to cap people’s rents. What, you may ask, have rents got to do with Europe? And if you did ask that...
View ArticleBuild, baby, build – dig up those green fields: we need a new generation of...
"Write more about Harlow," he said to me, as I left. "He" being Robert Halfon, MP for the New Town. "You used to write about us." As our fingers touched in farewell I felt a spike of melancholy: I am...
View ArticleWill the tide ever come in at Britain's depressed seaside resorts?
Ministers are to provide ten coastal towns with more than £8.5 million to regenerate historic sites, create tourist attractions and improve flood defences in places hit by last winter's storms. The...
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