{"id":736,"date":"2016-01-05T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-masterplan-needs-a-rethink-letters-from-shaun-spiers-cpre-and-others\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T01:21:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:21:56","slug":"housing-masterplan-needs-a-rethink-letters-from-shaun-spiers-cpre-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-masterplan-needs-a-rethink-letters-from-shaun-spiers-cpre-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing masterplan needs a rethink | Letters from Shaun Spiers, CPRE, and others"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe government\u2019s commitment, in the prime minister\u2019s words, to \u201croll its sleeves up and directly get homes built\u201d is very welcome (New housing plans signal policy shift by ministers, 4 January). For far too long responsibility for meeting the nation\u2019s housing need has been outsourced to a few big firms who have demanded ever more greenfield sites and then failed to build enough new homes. Planning permissions are up, the big developers\u2019 land banks and profits are huge, but housing starts have\u00a0stalled.At last the penny seems to have dropped that a serious public-private partnership is needed if we are to tackle the housing crisis. This will require more planning, not less. If we are to build homes people will want to live in for years to come, there must be as great a commitment to high-quality design and place-making as to numbers. And\u00a0to ensure public consent for a mass programme of housing building, the vast majority of new homes should be built on sustainable brownfield sites. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The government\u2019s commitment, in the prime minister\u2019s words, to \u201croll its sleeves up and directly...<\/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-736","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-bS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100715,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-developers-to-build-larger-flats-as-tiny-homes-lose-appeal-amid-increasing-public-housing-supply\/","url_meta":{"origin":736,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong developers to build larger flats as tiny homes lose appeal amid increasing public housing supply","date":"October 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong developers are having to rethink their approach to tiny flats, as the strategy of building low-priced homes no bigger than a car park space is being squeezed by the government\u2019s commitment to increase the supply of public housing, according to commercial real estate service provider JLL. 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