PLANNING

Counties can help speed delivery of the right homes in the right places

We must move away from simply 'planning by numbers' when it comes to housing and instead seek to create genuine and sustainable communities, says Peter French

With Brexit dominating the headlines, it is perhaps easy to forget the Government's flagship domestic agenda: fixing the broken housing market.

While the national figures from 2018 show that house prices are stagnating in England and the Government is – just – building more homes, this picture is not played out in county areas.

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