Business secretary Vince Cable has criticised planning reforms introduced by his own government as perverse because of their effect on employment space.
‘Perverse’ new rules easing the conversion of offices and shops into homes are destroying jobs and are a ‘bad example’ of central government control over planning, business secretary Vince Cable has said.
Speaking at a Localis fringe event at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference, the business secretary said that golf courses are not ‘sacred’ and he sympathises with families who cannot find homes but are surrounded by courses.
Vince Cable has called for a fresh wave of housing to be built on green belt land to solve Britain’s housing shortage – noting that new developments are being focused on the south-east because “people are not flocking to Burnley”.
In his monthly column in The MJ, Localis chief executive Alex Thomson discusses Localis’ conference season goings-on and the cross-party support for devolution in the UK.
After chairing the event, Isabel Hardman reports from Localis’ fringe event at Liberal Democrat Party Conference.
Localis were at all three major party conferences, featuring events with Secretaries of State, Ministers and Shadow Ministers
The majority of additional borrowing capacity made available to town halls to fund the building of new council homes remains untouched, the communities minister has revealed.
Speaking at a Localis fringe event at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference, Vince Cable said families in Surrey would rather have homes than golf courses.
Speaking at a Localis fringe event at Conservative Party Conference 2014, Duncan Bonfield of Land Securities said the developer were “struggling” to make the Ebbsfleet garden city development viable.