Building the future: are recent policy proposals enough?

Speakers:

• Dan Tomlinson MP, National Champion, Government’s Growth Mission
• Nicholas Boys Smith, Founder & Chairman, Create Streets
• One more speaker to be announced

One of the Government’s key pledges is to build 1.5 million homes over the Parliament. This is an ambitious target, we have not built more than 300,000 homes in a single year since the 1960s.

And yet it is a necessary target given the housing crisis gripping the UK. House prices have more than doubled since 2000, there is a housing shortage of more than three and a half million homes and the situation is particularly acute in London, where an estimated 2 per cent of the population are homeless.

To meet this target a range of planning reforms have been proposed, the NPPF has been updated, and a Planning & Infrastructure Bill introduced. Taken together, these would amount to one of the biggest shake-ups to the planning system in decades and yet the question remains: are they enough to get us to 1.5 million homes?

Re:State is delighted to host this panel event with Dan Tomlinson MP, National Champion, Government’s Growth Mission, Nicholas Boys Smith, Founder & Chairman, Create Streets, and one more speaker to be announced, to discuss whether the recent policy announcements will be enough to deliver 1.5 million homes and the role this will play in kickstarting economic growth across the country.