Category: landrights & planning

Planning His Own Demise

Keir Starmer’s attack on our planning system is an almost-perfect repeat of Boris Johnson’s disaster. Why can’t he see that?

This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.

For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.

Labour’s housing strategy makes a dysfunctional system bigger. We need systemic change.

The bodies meant to protect us from floods are unaccountable, self-serving and feudal in character. No wonder they keep failing.

What does democracy mean, under governments like this?

The Police Bill would criminalise an entire minority: it’s as if nothing has been learnt from the 20th Century.

The Conservatives promised that communities could reshape their own towns. As the shocking case of Totnes shows, it’s a con.

We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis.

People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks.

Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting, crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them.

We have been shut out of most of the UK’s open land for centuries. It’s time this changed.

This proposed new law would make us strangers in our own nation, by criminalising trespass.

Governments have built a heaven for landlords and a hell for tenants. It’s time to change the system.

Our new report puts forward transformative proposals for taking back control of the land.

In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth

Britain’s housing crisis won’t end until we face some uncomfortable truths

The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.

Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?

What better symbol of a regenerating Scotland could there be than a new network of national parks?