Paul Smith
@Paul_SLG
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Developer, land promoter, planner, surveyor, cyclist, YIMBY. MD of @WeAreSLG, @THELPDF board member, @PricedOutUK advisory board, @Housing_Today columnist
Manchester
Joined November 2013
Some housing stats. A thread. š§µ . England has consistently built fewer new homes than other countries.
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Hereās something I wrote for Housing Today explaining why.
housingtoday.co.uk
This Friday marks a year since Labour won a historic landslide in the general election. Paul Smith assesses how the government has fared against its key housing delivery pledge
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I donāt think Labour will come close to 1.5m homes. Their reforms so far are broadly positive but donāt go far enough. But those changes wonāt start to impact completion rates for a few months yet. The figure below is largely a result of the Conservativesā changes in Dec 2023.
A reminder that Angela Rayner said in February there would be "no excuses" if Labour don't reach the 1.5m housebuilding target
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Loving the energy of the lady strolling round the gigantic World of Disney store in a Tom and Jerry t-shirt.
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Iām in Disney World have just tweeted about housing targets. I think I need help.
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This was the first thing we saw as we left Orlando airport and it feels like a whole State is trolling me.
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The government has rightly identified regulatory burdens - especially the planning system - as a key challenge for SME builders. Yet their answers so far fail to deal with that problem. Iāve explained why they must be brutal in addressing those constraints for Housing Today.
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Hereās a thread from last year where I explained their past attempts to put a plan in place.
This is great from @JonnElledge. After the local elections, Castle Point doesnāt have a *single* councillor from a national party. And a huge reason for that is opposition to new homes. If you havenāt been following their local plan process it is, as the kids say, wild.
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The latest twist in the Castle Point local plan saga is all too predictable. Which I suppose means it isnāt a twist.
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9 weeks after submitting a planning application for 100 homes to a council that doesnāt offer a pre-application service, weāve been told itās invalid because the parameters plan says ādo not scaleā on it. š.
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From this council webpage which includes other, equally terrifying, insights.
buckinghamshire.gov.uk
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Somehow, this is going to end up stopping us building homes, isnāt it?
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This is one of the best books Iāve read in ages.
Massive thanks to everyone buying thisā¦ itās a Sunday Times bestseller again this week . Thank you - and for all the kind and supportive messages
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As housing becomes more scarce, it becomes more expensive.
Here is (yet another) downward sloping demand curve for housing. When the cost of housing increases, holding income and population constant, demand for housing falls. from @matthewplan.
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