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.
Urban centres have re-emerged as key sites of policy intervention. National and local governments across the UK are responding to changing patterns of office and retail use, and the need to deliver more housing in existing towns and cities. Reshaping places for the long term is complex, however
