Where Should We Build New Homes?

This RTPI policy statement on identifying new housing development opportunities. A top priority for the UK Government must be to address the severe difficulties that many people in England (for which it is responsible) have in accessing decent and affordable housing. We therefore welcome the expressed intention of the government to produce a Housing White Paper for England in autumn 2016.

Identifying new development opportunities for where new housing should be located, is a key to this review of housing policy. A fresh approach to the policy on the location of housing is therefore one of the RTPI’s 16 Ways to Solve the Housing Crisis. The Royal Town Planning Institute has also canvassed its members across the country on their experience in trying to meet the shortfall in housing supply, which has formed the basis of this following statement.

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