From our research and initial conversations with experts from the associations, businesses, local authorities and academia across the UK, we have developed several key policy areas which need addressing to increase the provision of housing and quality under the current regime.
Regional inequality in the UK has been a pervasive challenge that has been exacerbated by the cost of living crisis. Recent years have seen a focus on the UK’s productivity puzzle as a route to understanding our relative stagnation.
The TCPA thinks that all new homes, whether created through planning permission or permitted development, should meet basic quality standards to ensure that they support their occupants’ health and wellbeing.
Data could have huge benefits for councils; helping them better understand their citizens’ needs and behaviours, targeting services more effectively, stopping what isn’t working, and allocating resources to where they have the biggest impact.
