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Planning for the future: some solutions for our housing crisis at last?

Paul Cheshire


The white paper, Planning for the future, published in early August 2020 represents the first serious attempt to reform our dysfunctional land use planning system since its inception. Although the Barker report?s diagnosis of how our planning system caused our housing shortage were well researched, the recommendations for change did no more than paint some steely surfaces over the crumbling fabric of planning. They were fixes for an unfixable system. This white paper promises more.


1 October 2020


CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog


http://spatial-economics.blogspot.com/2020/10/planning-for-future-some-solutions-for.html

This Blog is published under the centre's Urban programme, Neighbourhoods programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Housing