Let’s build in the green belt

Andrew Carter writes on ConservativeHome about why policy-makers need to be courageous in order to address the housing crisis.

Press release published on 6 November 2014

It is clear that the UK’s housing crisis has all parties in a bind. There are constant proclamations that the nation urgently needs more homes, but despite various proposals from across the political divide, there remains scant practical detail about where they will be built, and even how this would be decided. This is largely because each of the main parties have focused a disproportionate amount of attention on declaring where housing supply will not be found or delivered – namely within the green belt.

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