- The need for a more diverse house-building industry, including small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) builders and public-sector building programmes.
- Giving a strong leadership role for local authorities to intervene where the private sector fails to deliver.
- Public, private and institutional investment are identified as key.
- The report identifies communities as being partially responsible for not taking responsibility for the homes which are needed in their local areas.
- The roadmap has a plan for how garden cities may be implemented, reviewed and assessed throughout the process.
- The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) will be given greater powers to enforce housing by placing obligations on local authorities which fail to submit local plans by 2016. This is basically the same as the Coalition ruling that local authorities who fail to produce plans within a year of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) coming into force would see the NPPF becoming the default document for decision-making.
- Labour do not want to ‘help to buy’ but instead ‘help to build’, underwriting loans for small house builders.
- As expected, there is a recommendation for a ‘use it or lose it’ policy on planning permissions in a move to combat land banking. This ties in with the central proposition that there is simply not enough land brought forward for development.
- Enabling towns and cities to grow (it doesn’t specifically say by relaxing some greenbelt considerations but it is implied, particularly where the Review identifies the swathes of brownfield land which could be built on without specifying how much of it is within greenbelt).
- Reforming compulsory purchase orders (CPO) to give more security in terms of land assembly.
- Extending planning performance agreements (PPAs) and introducing measures to give certainty to developers and promote a partnership approach.
- Reinstating ‘infrastructure first’ and ensuring an effective delivery approach
- Tax Incremental Financing schemes (TIF) and infrastructure funds.
- Providing incentives to ensure land is built out.
- Opening up Land Registry information to make land ownership more transparent.
- Reviewing the effectiveness of the community infrastructure levy (CIL).
- Reviewing the impacts of the New Homes Bonus.
- Affordable housing.
- Brownfield land.
- Community infrastructure levy.
- Draft London Housing Strategy.
- Green belt.
- Lyons Housing Commission report.
- Lyons Inquiry.
- Masterplanning.
- National Planning Policy Framework.
- Neighbourhood planning.
- Redfern review into the decline of homeownership.
- Smart cities.
- The [http://www.yourbritain.org.uk/uploads/editor/files/The_Lyons_Housing_Review_2.pdf Lyons Housing Review].
Featured articles
Check out some of the best features and news from Designing Buildings as well as key stories from around the web.
World's first mass timber data centre.
The overlooked environmental aspect of data centre development.
Introduction to radon awareness
New technical information sheet published by CIOB.
Updated supplier guide can help electrical contractors engage with NHP.
CIAT confirm the winners of the 2026 architectural technology awards.
Government launches a one stop shop for flood preparedness.
Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's greatest architect? Book review.
CIOB publishes free template to help assess and manage risks.
ECA's reflections on Party Conference season
Burnham wants to be confident of winning before asking for a fresh mandate.
New Chief Construction and Scientific Adviser
Sergio Cavalaro, Professor of Infrastructure Systems at Loughborough University.
Building safety levy for England
CIAT publish estimator tool for members.
Water sector faces a growing crisis that could slow the delivery of vital infrastructure.
Undervaluing our industrial past
Heritage value changes as taste for building styles changes.