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The Bunker

Revolting Developments: Why the Govt’s plans won’t solve the HOUSING CRISIS

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Government’s new planning ideas hand a huge advantage to developers, with no-question greenlights for permissions in new “growth” and “renewal” areas. Is this a real fix for the housing crisis or just another free market free-for-all? STEVE COLE of Clarion Group – the UK’s largest housing association and also a developer – tells Naomi Smith why our housing crisis is so entrenched, and why the Johnson-Jenrick plans could well mean fewer affordable houses are built. “People love a smoking gun – but this is a massively complex crisis that has been a generation in the making.” “Housing is one of the most unstable government departments. By the time someone gets their head around it, they usually leave office.” Presented by Naomi Smith. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

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Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I'm Naomi Smith.

1:10.9

You'll have to have been a Russian billionaire or in a decades long coma to not have

1:16.1

realized that the UK has been mired in a housing crisis for a very long time.

1:21.6

The crisis takes different forms across the country from lack of supply in many cities

1:25.8

to a quality issue in other areas. Countless governments, successive London mayors and

1:30.8

council leaders, the length and breadth of Britain have all stood on pledges to quote fix the housing crisis

1:37.4

and last month in an attempt to kick-start the construction sector again the Johnson government

1:41.9

announced new planning laws which in some instances will remove powers from local authorities who have at times been criticized of blocking building.

1:50.0

But are they any good? Will they do the trick and how much money will they make Robert Generix mates?

1:55.0

Joining me today to help unpick the jargon, detangle the spin from the reality and tell us how this government is

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