UK Housing Policy: What can we do to produce an holistic housing policy?
Stephen raises the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 09
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<p>Stephen Hill dicusses how, in his opinion, we had a very good system but "mucked it up" with the Leasehold Reform Act in 1967. Peter Nicolson responds by stating that he feels we need to stop speculative trading in land. At this point Adrian Cooper states that stopping speculation is impossible and suggests other mechanisms to tackle this problem. The ‘development on leasehold land’ system was undermined by the 1967 Leasehold Reform Act – Paul sets out an example of how, when on a local Planning Committee, he was ‘turning out millionaires by the dozen’ – Adrian feels that speculation is inevitable in any market – but there are many ways to reduce its damaging effects and to separate out the land element and the build element.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://news.humanrightstv.com/z2k-2009-budget-response">See the Z2K Response to the 2009 UK Budget</a></p>
<p>Z2K Housing Review April 2009 Issue One: <a href="http://news.humanrightstv.com/z2k-housing-review-april-2009" target="_blank">Contents</a></p>
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