NHF Picks A Fight With Landowners ‘Pocketing Billions In Profit’

Landowners are pocketing billions of pounds of profit every year just for getting planning permission, which raises prices and makes it harder than ever to buy land for new social housing, according to a new report from the National Housing Federation (NHF) and the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP). But as the NHF launches its national housing summit, the CLA says such “false claims” distort the view of how the value of land is captured. The report kickstarts the  summit with its call for a radical overhaul in land sales. Read more on 24housing.

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