It will be interesting to see where the coalition government goes on "mixed communities" which were such a strong, centrally impos...

My colleague Tim Leunig quoted in the FT last week raised the possibility that strong planning controls in the South East would force busi...

It's interesting to see the government raising the issue of helping people move to take advantage of job offers , given the way they got...

John Muellbauer , of Oxford University (and a SERC affiliate) has a nice Guardian comment piece on housing . John is one of the economists ...

In 1998, approximately 50% of development occurred on brownfield land (a figure that had been remarkably stable for long periods of time). T...

From the CLG highlights , I think that for this to work: "Giving communities a greater say over their local planning system" we ...

RDA's spend around £1.5 bn per year. Administration accounts for about 7% of this. The Homes and Communities Agency is budgeted to spe...