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Housing affordability crisis blamed on green belt policy

2 May 2014

Green belt polices that aim to keep ''the urban unwashed out of the Home Counties'' are causing a housing affordability crisis, according to a London School of Economics (LSE) professor. Britain's booming house prices have been caused by ''decades of planning policies that constrain the supply of houses and land'', according to a study by Paul Cheshire, professor emeritus of economic geography at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance.

This article was published by Planningresource online on May 2, 2014
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Related publications
Turning Houses into Gold: the Failure of British Planning, Paul Cheshire. Article in CentrePiece Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2014.

Related links
Paul Cheshire webpage
SERC website

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