Rose Grayston
@rosegrayston.bsky.social
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Campaigning for the right to good, affordable, secure housing for all - without wrecking the planet.
London has 289,000 potential homes with planning permission that have not yet been built. Do we really need a "presumption in favour of developers building whatever they like" on brownfield, or do we need a capital grant top up for stalled sites to boost Social and Affordable?
almost 2 years ago
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The government is introducing new Permitted Development Rights to make it even easier to convert office blocks etc., in the hope this may put a dent in England's homeownership crisis. It won't. Since 2013, PDR has created 100,000 homes. Very few have ended up in homeownership.
almost 2 years ago
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The problem with brownfield development is NOT slow planning. The problem is profitability - it costs more to remediate & develop, so developers prefer fresh greenfield sites. The only way Gove's policy can possibly work is by cutting
#AffordableHousing
etc. from brownfield.
almost 2 years ago
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reposted by
Rose Grayston
Neal Hudson
almost 2 years ago
The high-density brownfield development model is very different to the way volume housebuilders build homes on greenfield sites. Hereโs a brief explanation of it from March last year
builtplace.com/market-comme...
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2/3rds of ยฃ4.2bn UK Housing Infrastructure Fund unspent despite homes crisis: โIt has been killed by the economy and ridiculous business case requirements". A perfect example of UK government's talent for preventing money pledged from ever being spent.
www.ft.com/content/1977...
almost 2 years ago
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Great to see new
#SocialHousing
supply tick up in the latest stats - but England is still losing around 4k more social homes each year than we build. Things are now getting worse slightly less quickly than they were.
almost 2 years ago
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Excited to talk about planning reform with a brilliant panel at tomorrow's
#housingconference
- no, I really am! How can the system deliver more
#AffordableHousing
? How can we improve Section 106? How can we build sustainable places - not just units?
about 2 years ago
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