On Tuesday, 27 January 2026 the MHCLG issued a press release headed Housing Secretary rallies sector at housing and infrastructure roundtables making plain the Housing Secretary’s concern, saying “….the Housing sec stressed that while recovery is underway, government and industry alike cannot afford to let a generation down and must rise to the challenge together. … Continue reading Rallying support for change

Labour Together is a left leaning think tank, which has just published a proposal with lots of merit, which in time is doable and thank the lord has plenty of market potential. Right place and right time. So it is naive that it contains two fatal errors. Why is Labour and its activist and intellectual … Continue reading Elementary errors

Two housing experts with insight and experience have recently told us why house prices are excessive. Both make telling points. Both offer solutions. The solutions point in different directions. One solution could work. The other is will not. Both agree that the planning changes now being put forward by the government will fail to mend … Continue reading Wishful thinking or reality?

For years I have suspected that one of the biggest, and least visible reasons why so many people fear the idea of spatial change near them is this. People like, well sort off like if not love, the enduring and comforting sense of continuity their local out of doors never changing urban or rural environment … Continue reading Go big: be positive

Conversation during the Christmas break with sensible and informed observers of the broken housing market have made me see that what is plain to me is not plain to them. To repair the broken housing supply delivery pipeline, as I have said in previous blogs, there is an absolute necessity for a two step plan, … Continue reading Step 1; then Step 2 = NLS