Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis
160Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis
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ISBN-13: | 9780255367820 |
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Publisher: | London Publishing Partnership |
Publication date: | 12/10/2019 |
Pages: | 160 |
Product dimensions: | 5.12(w) x 7.84(h) x 0.52(d) |
About the Author
Jacob Rees-Mogg is the Leader of the House of Commons and Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of North East Somerset. He was a member of the judging panel for the Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize, 2018. Jacob read History at Trinity College, Oxford, before co-founding Somerset Capital Management, an investment management firm that specialises in emerging markets.
Dr Radomir Tylecote is Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He has an MPhil from Cambridge University and a PhD from Imperial College London Business School. Among other IEA publications he is the co-author of Plan A+: Creating a Prosperous Post-Brexit UK and Freedom to Flourish: UK Regulatory Autonomy, Recognition, and a Productive Economy. He is regularly published in the Daily Telegraph, CityAM and elsewhere.
Table of Contents
The Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize ix
About the authors xi
Figures xv
Part 1 Raising the Roof 1
1 Raising the roof Jacob Rees-Mogg Radomir Tylecote 3
Summary 3
Introduction 6
Causes: how we tied the Gordian Knot 9
Solutions 25
The beauty of freedom 41
Appendix: Outline of the current planning system 43
References 46
Part 2 The Essays 51
2 The Land Purchase Act Ben Clements 53
Summary 53
Introduction 54
The problem stated 55
Free markets thwarted 56
The Land Purchase Act 58
How it works 60
Economic benefits 61
Towards free-market housing 62
References 64
3 Presumed permission: a self-build framework for local development rights Stephen Ashmead 65
Summary 65
Introduction 66
Why do we have a housing crisis? 69
Reinvigorating self-build through community-designed Local Development Rights 70
A new role for the local planner 74
The wider-reaching benefits of a presumed permission self-build framework 75
References 77
4 Simplified Planning Zones and the realignment of fiscal incentives Daniel Pycock Charles Shaw 79
Summary 79
The current state of the housing market 80
How the planning system works 83
Other problems with the housing market 85
Suggested policy response 88
References 92
5 Planning to the people: how a system of transferable development rights could replace the green belt Thomas Schaffner 96
Summary 96
What is the housing crisis? 97
The green belt 98
Framing the dilemma 98
A market-based solution: 'transferable development rights' 100
A replacement for the green belt? 102
Potential criticisms 104
Conclusion 105
References 106
6 Taking on established interests: a new approach to land to solve the housing shortage William Watts Luke McWatters 107
Summary 107
The problem of UK land use 108
Re-evaluation of green belt designated land 109
Reforming the system of planning 111
The removal of agricultural subsidies 113
Political considerations 114
Conclusion 116
References 117
7 The Localism 2.0 reform Gintas Vilkelis 119
Summary 119
The problem 119
The policy vision 122
Increasing the number of houses built and the proportion of property owners 125
Why reform would be possible 126
8 A supply-side answer to the housing crisis: false impressions and true solutions Calvin Chan 128
Summary 128
Introduction 129
The causes of the current crisis 130
The wrong kind of solution 131
The right kind of solution 132
Conclusion 135
References 135
A note on the longlist 137
About the IEA 140