Local Planning powers
Public Land Value Capture: A new model for housing development in Scotland
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: Feburary 2018
This report outlines the case for public land value capture. A process by which councils, not those selling land, can benefit from the increase in land value due to changing use. It can reduce house prices by not passing that uplifted cost on to renters and buyers of the houses built on such land.
Housekeeping Scotland: Discussion paper outlining a new agenda for housing
Author / Creator: Malcolm Fraser
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: October 2016
The United Kingdom’s housing policies have been ideologically-driven, and have led to the current crisis of strangled investment, under-provision and a general flow of power and money from civic society to the wealthy. UK housing has suffered greatly from its politicians’ fixation with a single form of home and tenure, the mortgage-backed and privately-owned home.