The Centre-Right Campaign for Housebuilding
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We’ve built an interactive map of how buildable every US state is for data centers in 2027.
via @amphiotech
amphioresearch.com/p/morator…
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If you buy an £800k flat in London, about £200k of that is an implicit subsidy for someone else to live in the same place as you at zero or much lower rent.
A further £200k is purely to meet regulations and bureaucracy.
Government imposed policy costs make up 57% of the clearing price of a new flat in London and 42% of a new home in the Home Counties.
Despite a big housing shortage and positive planning reforms, new home starts in England are declining from 182,000 in 2022 to under 125,000 last year.
While the macroeconomic context has worsened with build cost inflation and high interest rates, the Government is imposing more burdens on new homes, not fewer.
Taxes, levies, planning, and mandates add over £440,000 to the cost of delivering a home in London and nearly £225,000 nearby, with several of these imposed recently like the Second Staircase, Future Homes Standard, Building Safety Levy, Biodiversity Net Gain and Residential Property Developer Tax.
Individually these may be justified, but together they are making new homes unviable.
As a result, large developers are buying less land and small builders are going out of business; nearly 4,000 construction firms went bust just last year.
If we want to build more homes, we should be easing the burdens on them, not adding more.
Making housebuilding viable again is the most important issue in housing policy and my co-author, Edward Donovan, has completed excellent modelling showing how big the challenge is.
Read the full report: cps.org.uk/wp-content/upload…
And simulate what changing the policies does with Edward's modelling here: easing-the-burdens.cps.org.u…
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Tiktok terrorist who prayed for British soldiers to be slaughtered is being housed in £300,000 three-bed council flat in north London trib.al/JU5sgY0
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The sad irony of this is:
- the Leeds data centre is estimated to create 1,000+ jobs across the region
- its water needs are roughly equivalent to 5 moderately busy car washes
- and... it will use rainwater gathering, so a decent chunk of water needs are covered anyway
Objecting to it essentially makes the region poorer, for no real gain.
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Inside a data centre that is yet to be built will be found the cure to the disease that will otherwise kill the person you most love.
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One person’s economic development is another’s “industrialisation of an area that cannot absorb it.”
From the FT: ft.com/content/3ae956ad-383e…
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FAO @ChelFulhamBen
Hi Ben,
I emailed you on the 16th September, as a constituent, about the potentially very large increase in my council tax bill (+80%) owing to the Fairer Funding Formula 2.0. being brought in. Why have you not replied to my email in 51 days?
I asked whether you had spoken to the relevant Ministers in MHCLG, who are your colleagues, on your constituent's behalf about this. The massive increase in your constituent's taxes will make your constituency more unaffordable, especially to us younger, hard-working people. I would like to know your position on this, and if you are in favour, why you think it's justified to almost double my council tax in exchange for no new (indeed, fewer) services.
I would very much appreciate a response. If an email or letter is too taxing (if you'll excuse the pun) I am happy to come into Portcullis House for a meeting. I do only work around the corner. Please let me know.
Yours sincerely, as a taxpayer and constituent,
Maxwell
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The Government is going to miss the 1.5 million homes target.
Homes are now getting built slower than under the previous three Governments.
We need a new wave of planning reform to get back on track.
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Fed up with everything costing more but still not working properly? We think there's a better way........
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“There’s no such thing as rent control in England, silly, and you’ve always been able to challenge rent increases. Nothing’s changed.”
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Six months in and the tribunal system is already gumming up. There’s basically zero reason not to challenge any rent increase (apart from a lingering reluctance to take the piss), and as more tenants cotton on, practically the entire rental market in England will grind to a halt.
The Renters’ Rights Act continues to produce the most painfully predictable consequences. thetimes.com/money/tax/artic…
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BREAKING
The OBR says the tax raid on landlords - increasing property income tax rates by another 2% - will:
1) Make it less likely that people become landlords, ‘reducing long term rental supply’ and leading to a ‘steady long-term rise in rents’
2) See landlords simply pass on costs to tenants, increasing rents
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In a better world the big developers would be forced to up their game because skilled small builders would be providing real competition. Our planning system means big developers instead spend on lawyers and consultants and the smaller builders don't get to build at all.
The average new-build property has 130 defects, according to specialist inspection company HomeSnag.
I visited one with Tom Britton and his team to find out why so many of Britain's shiny new homes are scarcely fit for purpose.
Read: telegraph.co.uk/money/proper…
Credit: @HomeSnag
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Europe’s energy ministers are running out of ideas to protect citizens from surging energy prices as winter approaches.
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I have bad news for my barista tenant. The minimum wage has gone up 3.9%. So has his rent
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🚨 NEW: We polled 1,000 British adults about the data centres being built here, and net support for one near where you live sits at -13.
The North East is the most supportive region at +11 and Northern Ireland the most opposed at -50.
Via @amphiotech (1/8)
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‘That’s £190,000 per person…’
‘We could buy them all a house!”
@NickFerrariLBC runs the numbers on the government's pledge to end rough sleeping by Christmas.
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Vote Green.
Vote unemployment.
Vote stagnation.
Sorry for the 50 people who would have had jobs.
You have been let down by your Councillor.
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Applied in 2023 and withdrew after backlash in 2024, made adjustments and re-submitted in 2025.
They built it out of bath stone for you people, nicest Lidl I’ve ever seen😭
If it was an M&S, I’d half expect you lot to pick up a trowel and help them.
