The Centre-Right Campaign for Housebuilding
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Some dismiss nuclear as a solution because it takes too long to build, but as the Guinness ad point out: "Good things come to those that wait."
A single nuclear plant, when finished, will supply more power to the grid than every solar panel in Britain combined.
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Doesn’t need experts. The cost of building the average UK house has risen 50% in 5 years - half of which is tax and regulation. Strip those back, volumes will follow.
EXCLUSIVE 🗞️- Britain’s economic watchdog, the OBR, is concerned that it may have to revise down the boost to GDP it had attached to Labour’s flagship planning reforms and 1.5 million new homes target.
The OBR has invited housing market experts in for meetings in a bid to “understand why the housing market is underperforming” so badly.
This will be a blow to the government and signals the state of our housing market amid worsening economic headwinds including inflation and higher mortgage rates which, in their defence, are neither Labour’s fault nor entirely within their control.
It also raised questions about the OBR’s initial forecast which experts have told me was optimistic at best.
My report @theipaper
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£237 MILLION to rebuild and widen a railway bridge. 🪦
Cars and buses go from Oxford Station down Botley Road for the first time in three years!
The project took longer than the construction of The Titanic and saw costs balloon to £237m.
Looks good though.
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1,500,000 new homes this Parliament @AngelaRayner @mtpennycook “stretched target” update 👇
🚨NEW: Britain's economic watchdog, the OBR, is considering downgrading the 0.2% GDP growth forecast it had attached to Labour's 1.5 million new homes target due to far fewer homes being built than they expected
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🚨NEW: Britain's economic watchdog, the OBR, is considering downgrading the 0.2% GDP growth forecast it had attached to Labour's 1.5 million new homes target due to far fewer homes being built than they expected
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“Tax and spend, with better TikTok”
That’s the utterly damning verdict of Andy Haldane, once touted as Andy Burnham’s friend and economic adviser.
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Gloomy forecast for tenants as rent rises set to speed up bbc.in/4ht6Nzd
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One of the charts I discuss in the post. That's a hell of a change in a single generation.
New post:
Young people are increasingly unhappy. It's a real phenomenon + nothing to do with "snowflakes".
There are lots of standard culprits - social media, school, economy - but none explain the long-term trend.
So what is going on?
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A 128 page application from Hackney council to Hackney council for a space in a residential block to be returned to its original use as a 1 bed council flat. Councillors sent application back for more work.
A clue to both inadequate housing stock and feeble productivity.
NEW: This is a story about just how hard it is to build in Hackney
Hackney's councillors failed to approve the council’s own application to turn ‘community flat’ back into a one-bed council flat.
– The application ran to 128 pages
– "Community Involvement" started 2 years ago
– The replacement meeting room is a four-minute walk away
– Councillors still spent 90 mins debating it and then demanded the council come back with more evidence
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🚨 NEW: Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward has now also been revealed as a landlord despite the party's pledge to abolish them
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Who drives decisions on Soho’s future? This nagged me during paternity leave so between night feeds I analysed the text in 1,639 decisions: each contested licensing hearing, every refused planning application, and every application that drew public comment 🧵
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NEW: This is a story about just how hard it is to build in Hackney
Hackney's councillors failed to approve the council’s own application to turn ‘community flat’ back into a one-bed council flat.
– The application ran to 128 pages
– "Community Involvement" started 2 years ago
– The replacement meeting room is a four-minute walk away
– Councillors still spent 90 mins debating it and then demanded the council come back with more evidence
samdumitriu.com/p/how-hard-i…
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Super evening yesterday. There's no question - the appetite to invest and build in London is there, but we need a Mayor and City Hall that shares this appetite. I do.
Big thanks to all our guests who attended. What an inspiring night. The future is bright 💙
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This is landlordophobia.
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The deputy leader of the Green Party, whose policy it is to “abolish landlords”, is a private landlord thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Earlier today at the Reform UK Party Conference in Birmingham, we hosted our panel: Housing and planning: What are the right priorities for Britain?
With:
🔸 Neil Jefferson, Chief Executive, HBF
🔸 @FrancescaOBMS, Senedd Shadow Cabinet Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning
🔸 @CJAWorrall, Leader of West Northamptonshire Council
🔸 Chris Worrall, @BuildForBritain
🔸 Christopher Howarth, Centre for a Better Britain
Here are some of the key takeaways 👇
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Another packed event with Cllr Mark Arnull, Leader @WestNorthants, @FrancescaOBMS, Neil Jefferson, CEO @HomeBuildersFed, @CJAWorrall Dir. @BuildForBritain and @CJCHowarth, Parliamentary Liaison Lead @CfabbUK discussing housing policy in the UK, chaired by @anguswyatt. #ReformConf
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Sharp Drop in Residential Housebuilding order-order.com/2026/09/04/s…
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Not very often you get a frontline politician who has written a first class book on political philosophy. @NJ_Timothy is one such person and delighted that he enjoyed The Ownership Society
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Exclusive: Jack Rankin named as Badenoch's PPS
Energetic, robust and highly online, the Windsor MP will add some lusty Mancunian voice to the cheers at PMQs
Intriguing appointment of a onetime Jenrick backer and 92 Group member – will he be her Ian Gow?
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