07 Mar, 2018
Motes and planks: who is really to blame for the housing shortage?
Nigel Hewitson, planning partner at BrookStreet des Roches, weighs up whether prime minister Theresa May's comments about developers during her March 5 speech on the planning reforms were entirely justified.
We are regularly told that, as a country, we are not building enough homes. There is widespread acceptance that, to meet demand, the UK needs to build about 300,000 new homes a year.
Yet for years we have built, at best, half that number. The result is ever higher property prices which