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the article doesnt tell us why this edge case took so long - maybe it was perpetual objections and re-applying for permissions, access to site, or additional works that didn't get permission, etc. putting a tax on that permission will only make it cost more, and feed into more expensive houses...

:wozza: taxes and regulations are the problem, not the solution. does it make much sense to you that a developer would sit on land for fun? there certainly isnt one suggested in that article, except the valid point about business//project planning, for which 2 years land bank seems reasonable...

i dont find this at all bizarre, its market forces. what is bizarre is that cost of housing is treated as a national issue when it is only really a problem in the south, and for all the talk of policy on the matter nothing tangible is done. the building industry could build the house...

interview missed a trick, having exposed the lack of comprehension of the numbers, the KO would have been to ask where these 500k homes would be built: how much of the green belt, playing fields, parks, city nature reserves etc would be needed? and if its all magic brownfield, who's paying for...

not very much to be said when, as demonstrated here, they dont have a clue when they wander off the single core issue. Greens (and UKIP) would do alot better to stick to their single issue and not try to stray into every other topic. they aren't ever going to become a party of government, so...