This is the real question. Here’s three suggestions…
https://twitter.com/DannyHegarty/status/1411282817812602886
1. Repeal the 1961 Land Compensation Act. This will allow communities to capture the huge ⬆️ in land value that they create by giving their consent for development. That’s 💰 that can be spent on infrastructure (🚈, 🧑🏫, 🌳 etc) instead of going into the pockets of speculators.
(Happy side effect: it also discourages land speculation / hoarding etc, makes development more popular with communities, and ends the 🤦🏻♂️ nonsense of ‘viability’ as a justification for crap/ unaffordable development)
2. Use the planning system to set non-downward-negotiable design & perfmnce codes up front. Result: the cost of better development (+🌳s, zero carbon etc) has to be factored into the land price. So 💰 that wd otherwise be captured as high land cost is spent on better🏡s instead.
(These codes must be shaped by a. evidence and b. democracy.
Not reducing democracy, but moving it upstream.)
Not reducing democracy, but moving it upstream.)
3. Any state can sell / lease / ‘licence’ serviced plots directly to families, groups or non-profit stewardship orgs (eg HAs, cmnity trusts), who can then procure 🏡s from a diverse market of design / manufacturing/ construction cos, innovating to offer the best products/services
In the end, residents and community stewardship orgs are the only people who have a direct incentive to create the best places to live that they can
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