The RTPI welcomes many of the measures contained in the Housing White Paper - many of which the RTPI has long campaigned for, including more comprehensive measures to increase the supply of suitable land available for housing. RTPI sets out its analysis of the long-term failure in the housing sector characterised by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as the “broken housing market” in its position paper Better Planning for Housing Affordability. However there are some issues concerning housing which the white paper does not address.
As part of the housing white paper, the government is consulting on changes to planning policy and legislation in relation to planning for housing, sustainable development and the environment. The RTPI’s response highlights some issues concerning housing which the white paper does not address. It makes no mention of a mechanism to capture rising private land values so as to benefit communities–the single most useful instrument to channel more value generated by development towards public benefit investments such as social housing and good infrastructure without incurring more public debt.
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