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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