{"id":138982,"date":"2023-08-30T22:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-property-developers-call-the-shots-on-housing-policy-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:28:39","slug":"how-property-developers-call-the-shots-on-housing-policy-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-property-developers-call-the-shots-on-housing-policy-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"How property developers call the shots on housing policy | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJohn Worrall says affordability is the real problem, but house builders have no interest in fixing itThe article on pollution (England\u2019s rivers at risk as Michael Gove rips up rules on new housing, 28 August) should be read together with Daniel Chandler\u2019s piece (Big money is trashing trust in British politics. \u2018Democracy vouchers\u2019 could be the solution, 29 August), in which he says: \u201cWe have designed a political system where rich donors can, in effect, buy policy influence.\u201dThe development sector donates millions to the Conservative party, and when it says environmental rules are blocking new homes, what it actually means is that rules are blocking new planning consents with which developers can take their time. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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John Worrall says affordability is the real problem, but house builders have no interest in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-A9E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8186,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ura-revises-rules-for-property-developers\/","url_meta":{"origin":138982,"position":0},"title":"URA revises rules for property developers","date":"March 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Construction in Singapore. 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