The All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Housing Market & Housing Delivery is a cross-party group of MPs and Peers dedicated to improving the UK housing market. It has published a report called ‘Hacking housing: nine supply side hacks to fix our housing system error’ (link below) and the recommendations include changing the narrative around new development; a ‘grown-up conversation’ about Green Belt and incentivising LPAs to plan positively.
Most eye-catching though are these recommendations.
"Making planning sexy
The Housing Market & Housing Delivery APPG is chaired by Ben Everitt who kindly gave up some of his time back in June this year to record a conversation with Sam Stafford.
Their conversation takes in many of the themes that underpin the report, as well as the role and standing of the planning profession, how Ben got into politics and Sam's old geography teacher…
Some accompanying reading.
‘Hacking housing: nine supply side hacks to fix our housing system error’
https://www.appghousing.org.uk/
Sam’s Green Belt blog
https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-green-belt-what-it-is-why-it-is.html
Some accompanying listening.
The Only Fools & Horses closing theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxOEhc960Bc
Some accompanying viewing
Jerry Springer’s Final Thought on British politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-90FGJFrW1U
50 Shades T-Shirts!
If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning you will have heard Clive Betts say that...
'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'.
Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html
