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Sacrifice the greenbelt to fix the broken property market

19 June 2014

As Prof Paul Cheshire points out in London School of Economics journal Centrepiece, more of the county of Surrey is devoted to golf courses than houses. Just 10 per cent of England is built up, and gardens cover nearly half of that area. Meanwhile a child in inner London derives no benefit from the existence of greenbelt land several miles away.

This article was published in the Financial Times on June 19, 2014
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Related publications
Turning Houses into Gold: the Failure of British Planning, Paul Cheshire. Article from CentrePiece - Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2014
Turning Houses into Gold: the Failure of the British Planning, Paul Cheshire, LSE British Politics and Policy Blog, posted May 7, 2014

Related links
Paul Cheshire webpage
SERC website

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