How to build houses and save the countryside / Shaun Spiers.
By: Spiers, Shaun [author.]
Series: Policy Press shorts: Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2018Description: xiv, 164 pages : illustrations (black and white), mapsContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781447339991; 9781447346630Subject(s): Housing, Rural -- Government policy -- Great Britain | Public housing -- Great Britain | Housing policy -- Great Britain | Environmental responsibility -- Great Britain | Regional planning -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain | Planning -- Law and legislation -- Great BritainDDC classification: 354.340941 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 354.340941 SPI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015158 |
1. How to think about housing and planning -- 2. The housing crisis -- 3. Rural housing -- 4. Why it matters where we build: environmental constraints -- 5. How the planning system lost its legitimacy, and how to regain it -- 6. Solutions.
"England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside.
Addressing both sides of this critical debate, Shaun Spiers argues that to drive house building on the scale needed, government must strike a contract with civil society: in return for public support and acceptance of the loss of some countryside, it must guarantee high quality, affordable developments, in the right locations. Simply imposing development, as recent governments of all political persuasions have attempted, will not work.
Focusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn’t work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government." Taken from back cover.