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Interesting announcement today by the English Housing and Planning Minister, John Healey. He proposes that Parish Councils be given powers to build affordable housing by extending the scope of permitted development rights. Individual planning applications would not be needed for
Continue readingI’m grateful to my colleague, Graham Boyd for drawing my attention to an excellent report produced for the Mayor of London on Community Land Trusts and Mutual Housing Models. Such solutions could be very appropriate for overheated housing markets in
Continue readingWe know about problems with the planning system and we know about the problems of land availability. For those folk who don’t want to rent from a housing association but want to buy a piece of land on which to
Continue readingJim Hunter, the historian, journalist and ex-Chair of Highlands and Islands Enterprise was on the Lesley Riddoch programme on Radio Scotland this week. He rightly flagged up the housing shortage as a critical issue for rural Scotland. The difficulties associated
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