How big UK housebuilders have remained profitable without meeting housing supply targets
- Written by Chris Foye, Lecturer in Housing Economics, University of Reading
We must “bulldoze through” the planning system to “get Britain building again”. So said Sir Keir Starmer at the Labour party’s last annual conference. He argued it’s time to “fight the blockers” and build the 1.5 million homes that he thinks Britain needs.
But it is simplistic to...