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Without inherited wealth or a leg-up from the Bank of Mum and Dad, prospective first-time buyers are forced to abandon dreams of home ownership. Paul Cheshire describes the state of affairs for first-time buyers in Londo... Read more...
27 January 2023
Home Affairs editor A THOUSAND "commuter villages" with 2.1million new homes should be built on the green belt near railway stations to help solve the housing crisis, a leading government adviser and academic has propose... Read more...
22 September 2019
The £15bn Crossrail will serve the Buckinghamshire village of Taplow, in the green belt, next year, yet no homes can be added there, noted Professor Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics ... Read more...
10 June 2018
New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo..... Related publications "How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence fro... Read more...
01 December 2017
Woking has the highest density of golf courses of anywhere in the UK at more than 10% According to The Guardian , Surrey has more land for golf courses than homes thanks to planning policies that ensure the... Read more...
28 July 2017
9 o'clock if you have a health read then you can call us now and takes more calls as well on this issue of people fleeing the NHS but before that Sir rumours are continuing to circulate of the cra... Read more...
04 July 2017
Paul Cheshire, economist and emeritus professor of economic geography at the LSE, has been awarded a CBE for services to economics and housing. ... Read more...
04 January 2017
Five housing executives and a professor of economics and housing policy have been awarded medals in the New Year honours list. … Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of... Read more...
30 December 2016
Paul Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics is a longstanding critic of Britain’s byzantine planning system. [No link] ... Read more...
02 December 2016
Trump’s true legacy will be that of rural vandalism on a colossal scale. A unique wilderness at Menie destroyed for a golf course. This was a site of Special Scientific Interest, the highest environmenta... Read more...
01 November 2016
Article by Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman Good architectural design is a public good, but economists and policymakers lack robust evidence on the impact of well designed architecture on location value when planning s... Read more...
24 September 2016
Decades of planning policies that constrain the supply of houses and land and turn them into something like gold or artworks is to blame for the current housing crisis in the UK rather than foreign buyers, according to a... Read more...
17 August 2016
Paul Cheshire argues that golf courses capitalise on green belt planning laws which keep down land prices and contribute to a housing shortage. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on August 10, 2016 Link to th... Read more...
10 August 2016
There is another house price bubble under way in the Dublin area. Notwithstanding the efforts by the Central Bank to keep mortgage credit under control, some extraordinary prices have been quoted recently for the small p... Read more...
07 July 2016
Article by Christian Hilber In the first of a two-part article discussing the British planning system, Christian Hilber, Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, argues that the UK pl... Read more...
06 July 2016
There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics (LSE) - about 30 times the number of new houses London needs a year. But o... Read more...
30 April 2016
Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650m more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so... Read more...
17 March 2016
Source: London School of Economics and Political Science Country: World Abstract Does economic activity relocate away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floo... Read more...
03 March 2016
In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so many people are hit by devastating floods. We looked at 53 large floods, which affected more than 1,800 cities in 40 countries, from ... Read more...
Paul Cheshire is interviewed about building on the green belt in the South East. The interview was broadcast by BBC South East on the Inside Out programme on February 29, 2016 Link to recorded interview here Related... Read more...
29 February 2016
Dr Tom McDermott of the School of Economics and the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork has been working with colleagues from the London School of Economics and Oxford University to examine overpo... Read more...
11 January 2016
[Gabriel] Ahlfeldt, an Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Land Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says as long as outward growth is prevented by policies such as the 'green belt'... Read more...
10 August 2015
Infrastructure is the nearest thing in modern politics to motherhood and apple pie. Everybody, on left and right, can agree that more and better infrastructure is what Britain needs. Unfortunately it is also the thing th... Read more...
28 June 2015
In a recent article in McKinsey Quarterly John Dowdy, a director of McKinsey, and John van Reenen, an economics professor and director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, argue that ... Read more...
25 February 2015
Building an economy upon a massive and growing distortion in the market for land is foolish In a recent paper, Christian Hilber of the London School of Economics and Wouter Vermeulen of the Netherlands bureau for econom... Read more...
05 February 2015
Britain has prized the ideal of economically mixed neighbourhoods since the 19th century. Poverty and disadvantage are intensified when poor people cluster, runs the argument; conversely, the rich are unfairly helped whe... Read more...
29 January 2015
New homes should be built on golf courses in an attempt to solve the housing crisis, Vince Cable has suggested. ... Dr Cable was responding to a study by the London School of Economics which suggested that more of Surrey... Read more...
08 October 2014
Liberalisation of planning could therefore lower house prices and rents directly, and there would be a direct boost to building growth. But the real gains would come through a fall in the cost burden associated with prop... Read more...
16 September 2014
Stephen Stone, chief executive officer of Crest Nicholson Holdings Plc and Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at London School of Economics, discuss U.K. property prices, planning laws and building on green-b... Read more...
17 June 2014