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FROM THE EDITOR
James Parker
Is it because housebuilding has fi nally become such a national ‘hot potato’ in this General Election, with a hard-to-treat cost of living crisis married to continual industry problems and IBism, that most parties havent really mentioned it
Several months ago, Labour said it will build 1.5 million homes, but those are just numbers. etails on their plan (beyond another pledge to reform planning and build on grey not green belt sites are very hard to fi nd.
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owever, whichever party comes into power (and the odds are very short on Labour will have to quickly bring some form of plan to unlock housebuilding to bear. In arch the industry saw the lowest number of new site permissions over the year since the data began to be collated in 200.
Simply introducing alternatives to elp to Buy (or a continuation in the Conservatives case does nothing to tackle the systemic problems on delivery in the industry. The right plots are needed in the right sites, which may mean that some sort of central intervention is needed to free up planning rules. This is not going to happen locally, given that there is so much objection to schemes, for a variety of reasons (some more understandable than others.
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s I discovered in our Builders oices podcast a few weeks back (run in partnership with the FB and available at
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netmagmedia.co.uk, Chris is very much can-do on planning, but local dynamics can be sensitive and require careful handling.
Building tens of thousands more houses, and to the requirements of the Future omes Standard, is a massive ask. But as both the FB and FB manifestos make clear, it could be our best bet as an engine for growth.
Somehow, the adversarial nature of many local discussions needs to be facilitated and nurtured, and orth ast Lincolnshires approach would be a good one to emulate, it seems. It is based around a developers forum which contains all stakeholders, to iron out issues quickly, and as Chris says, its not a case of an open-season approach to schemes, passing everything, more a case of if we refuse it, we tell you why.
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Open minds to innovation are probably what will be most welcome and useful, and not around the beleaguered offsite mantra (currently, that doesnt have the traction. o, as per the approach of a purveyor of lateral thinking in Lincolnshire (the infl uential national president of the FB, housebuilder Chris Carr, planning rules are there to be innovated. They have collaboratively managed to fi nd and build on sites by working sensitively in partnership with the planning department, and have found a way around pointless bureaucracy in some cases.
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