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Labour’s plan for ‘the builders not the blockers’ is a capitulation to developers | Simon Jenkins (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by spacedogroy to c/uk_politics

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I don't endorse this article but it is a thought-provoking take. Personally, I think instead of "densifying" cities we should be doing the opposite - incentivize building new homes and business investment in lower-populated areas of the country.

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[–] mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

The two finest innovations of postwar British planning were green belts and urban conservation areas.

Lol. There's no hope for rational discourse, if this is the starting point of your opponent.

Green belts (and restrictive planning policy more generally) have been a disaster for the country. They are directly responsible for our crushing housing costs, poor housing quality, terrible urban design, and the stranglehold over our built environment that is held by a handful of gigantic, pointless building companies.

https://txtify.it/https://www.economist.com/britain/2017/02/11/britains-delusions-about-the-green-belt-cause-untold-misery