Today the Adam Smith Institute, along with our friends at the Taxpayers' Alliance, launch our drive to get as many of you involved in the housing white paper consultation as possible.
It's been an issue that has blighted Britain for decades. Scarce and irregular housing supply in the places people want to live, and an incentive structure that allows home owners to lock-out first-time buyers from the market, have left a whole generation priced out and our country less productive and poorer than we need or ought to be.
This could change though. In consultation is the Planning For The Future white paper. Its basic aim is to move England to a zoning-based system where local councils set out rules about what can be built where, but don’t take an active role in approving or rejecting individual applications for development. Rules over discretion. More micro-democracy. More beautiful buildings where people want to live.
It's an issue we've been researching for a decade and its vitally important that the country gets these reforms right. So that's why we want you sensible folk to join us in submitting evidence to the consultation.
Click the button below (or click here) to be taken to the page with our suggested answers to the questions being asked, click here to be taken to the full consultation page, and watch our video setting out how the housing crisis began and how we can fix it (and do like and share it with your friends).
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We have a once in a generation chance to end the housing crisis and a duty to rebuild Britain's prosperity after this pandemic. Let's take it.
Yours,
Matt
Matt Kilcoyne, Deputy Director
Adam Smith Institute
23 Great Smith St,
London SW1P 3DJ
Web: adamsmith.org
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @Mrjkilcoyne
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