Housing Crisis

Green Policies

Labour’s Green promise: A new dawn or mere words?

— Labour’s recent election victory spurs promises to review housing planning laws and lift the onshore wind ban. These pledges signal a potential shift towards sustainable energy and housing, boosting local communities’ autonomy and environmental benefits.

Housing Crisis

England’s rural housing crisis could be solved by fixing land prices and bringing land into public ownership

— Rural planning authorities largely operate according to the rationale that housing and service needs can more effectively be met in towns than in the countryside.

Housing Crisis

Homelessness in England has reached record levels

— Without state investment, strategic consideration and political support, the lessons learned since the start of the pandemic on the importance to society of a place to call home will be lost.