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By: Jonathan Seager

Jonathan Seager is policy director at BusinessLDN

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  • Build a new town in London

    Opinion

    The government has committed to building new towns with at least 10,000 homes but where should they go? London is the obvious place, says Jonathan Seager If you were asked to picture a new town in England, what comes to mind?   Some of the better-known settlements established in the mid-20th century may well feature – [...]

    Housing delivery in London is in a major crisis
  • Build, Baby, Build: Affordable housing is too hard to sell

    Build, Baby, Build

    There is a quick fix to get house houses built: Reform Section 106 to make it more viable for developers to sell affordable housing, says Jonathan Seager Housing has been one of the top issues during this general election campaign, with political parties jostling to one up each other in their pledges to tackle a [...]

    England's house building pipeline is at the lowest level since records began 17 years ago, as fresh pressure is piled on government parties to mend a “deepening housing crisis”. 
  • Gove’s housing plan is still stuck in a disjointed era of the suburbs vs the centre

    Jonathan seager

    Even with a ‘bold plan’ for urban centres, Michael Gove’s housing plan doesn’t know how to connect the suburbs to the city, writes Jonathan Seager.

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