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Rose Grayston

@rosegrayston.bsky.social

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Campaigning for the right to good, affordable, secure housing for all - without wrecking the planet.

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Rose Grayston @rosegrayston.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

London has 289,000 potential homes with planning permission that have not yet been built. Do we really need a "presumption in favour of developers building whatever they like" on brownfield, or do we need a capital grant top up for stalled sites to boost Social and Affordable?

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Rose Grayston @rosegrayston.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

The government is introducing new Permitted Development Rights to make it even easier to convert office blocks etc., in the hope this may put a dent in England's homeownership crisis. It won't. Since 2013, PDR has created 100,000 homes. Very few have ended up in homeownership.

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Rose Grayston @rosegrayston.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

The problem with brownfield development is NOT slow planning. The problem is profitability - it costs more to remediate & develop, so developers prefer fresh greenfield sites. The only way Gove's policy can possibly work is by cutting #AffordableHousing etc. from brownfield.

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Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

The high-density brownfield development model is very different to the way volume housebuilders build homes on greenfield sites. Here’s a brief explanation of it from March last year builtplace.com/market-comme...

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Rose Grayston @rosegrayston.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

2/3rds of £4.2bn UK Housing Infrastructure Fund unspent despite homes crisis: “It has been killed by the economy and ridiculous business case requirements". A perfect example of UK government's talent for preventing money pledged from ever being spent. www.ft.com/content/1977...

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Rose Grayston @rosegrayston.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Great to see new #SocialHousing supply tick up in the latest stats - but England is still losing around 4k more social homes each year than we build. Things are now getting worse slightly less quickly than they were.

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Rose Grayston @rosegrayston.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Excited to talk about planning reform with a brilliant panel at tomorrow's #housingconference - no, I really am! How can the system deliver more #AffordableHousing? How can we improve Section 106? How can we build sustainable places - not just units?

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