As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.
Category: landrights & planning
Forest Chumps
The sale of England’s state forests is a chance to do something interesting. It’s being squandered.
In a Hole, Still Digging
Why does England have weaker rules on opencast mining than Wales and Scotland?
Home Rule
Here’s the remarkable, hidden truth about our housing crisis.
Turning Estates into Villages
How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
The Propaganda of the Victor
How the poor were airbrushed from history
Three Million Homes?
Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.
The New Coal Age
A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?
Someone Else’s Legacy
Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.
Marooned in the Suburbs
When planning laws are relaxed, it is the poor who suffer most.
Untroubled by Democracy
The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.
Britain’s Most Selfish People
Owning a second home during a housing crisis ensures that other people are homeless.
Lady Tonge – an Apology
I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.
A Bully in Ermine
Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Property Paranoia
Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms
Living with the Age of Entropy
Is a life without fossil fuel possible?
Driven Out of Eden
Our quest for Paradise always appears to result in eviction or genocide
Our Racist Demonology
Robert Mugabe is portrayed as the prince of darkness, but when whites expel black people from their lands, nobody gives a damn.
Rich Man’s Castle
Greens must not allow themselves to be used by the wealthy to shut out low cost homes.
A Damning Alibi
The latest British sleaze scandal hints at a far bigger, untold story