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Most Councils have something called Community Infrastructure Levy - a charge on developers for hard and soft Infrastructure which is needed to service their development. Developers also pay Infrastructure providers fees for connecting to existing infrastructure. Councils have to justify the...

The Competition and Markets Authority are investigating this at the moment and recently published a working paper. Larger housebuilding firms have a UK landbank of about 1.1m plots with planning permission. The Letwin review found evidence of dripfeeding '... that once implementable planning...

The ONS website refers to the data as 'The number of vacant dwellings and second homes with no usual residents in England and Wales.' Whether your mum's house would count is unclear as I don't know what 'usual' means. Your story is a salutory tale - one I'll have to deal with before too long, so...

@Weststander @Psychobilly freakout @Westdene Seagull & @Chicken Run all make very valid points about Housing in B&H and the wider South East. It is a lot more complicated than our national politicians make out - its not just a matter of building more homes as 1) housing is used as a form of...

There is no Green Belt in Brighton and Hove. The Council already has powers to bring empty homes back into use (although I'm not sure they're used much). According to this Census data there were 8650 vacant dwellings and 1120 second homes in the city on 2021 census night, an almost doubling...