{"id":126709,"date":"2022-05-15T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/weve-done-it-before-others-do-it-now-a-national-housing-plan-is-not-beyond-our-wit-rowan-moore\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T06:22:08","slug":"weve-done-it-before-others-do-it-now-a-national-housing-plan-is-not-beyond-our-wit-rowan-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/weve-done-it-before-others-do-it-now-a-national-housing-plan-is-not-beyond-our-wit-rowan-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve done it before, others do it now \u2013 a national housing plan is not beyond our wit | Rowan Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe powers that created new towns can be used to build homes just where they\u2019re neededAs tokenistic and implausible policies go, it\u2019s hard to beat the concept of \u201cstreet votes\u201d, flagged up in last week\u2019s Queen\u2019s speech in order to \u201cfix the country\u2019s housing problems\u201d, as the Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat put it. The idea is that mini-referendums can be held whereby residents of a given street can, if an \u201coverwhelming\u201d majority agrees, decide to enlarge and extend their properties and develop back alleys or other scraps of land.This might sound fine in theory, but the detail is vague, probably because there are many devils in it. How do you draw the boundary that says who votes and who doesn\u2019t? What is the definition of \u201coverwhelming\u201d? Who organises and pays for these votes? As the countryside charity CPRE has pointed out, a mini-boom in loft conversions and back extensions is likely to lead to more residential space for those who already have enough, rather than for those in dire need of somewhere decent to live. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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