All articles by Julia Park – Page 3
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OpinionShow us that you mean it, minister
Dominic Raab’s declaration that poor design should be refused planning is massive - if it turns out to be more than just words
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OpinionWhere's the government's ambition?
Julia Park chews over the draft NPPF and Letwin’s initial report - and laments ministers’ woeful lack of aspiration
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OpinionTo vote or not to vote?
Balloting residents about plans to redevelop their homes sounds a good idea but is fraught with problems
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OpinionDensity is just a number. What counts is quality of place
We need to encourage inventive design solutions, not accept lower standards
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OpinionAll the ways government makes it hard for councils to build housing
Many local authorities are doing their damndest to build homes for their residents - and they’re managing it despite the active discouragement of ministers, says Julia Park
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OpinionDon’t bank on the budget to fix the housing market
The measures in the budget are fine as far as they go but won’t deliver the promised 300,000 homes a year, says Julia Park
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OpinionJust who is being Helped to Buy?
Far from fixing the broken housing market, the Treasury is propping it up with misguided policies, argues Julia Park
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OpinionThis housing consultation is revealing - of muddled thinking
Julia Park picks apart the government’s proposed reforms to the NPPF
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OpinionWhy design and build doesn't work
Design and build contracts were meant to give responsibility for jobs to one party. The reality is rather different says Julia Park
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OpinionWill Grenfell change everything?
When just one volume of building regs refers to 93 other documents, it’s clear that we need to go back to first principles, says Julia Park
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OpinionWill England’s new metro mayors make a difference?
Their powers are limited and the government’s motive might have been to off-load responsibility, but this exercise in devolution could still be a good thing. Julia Park takes a look
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OpinionWhen is overcrowding not overcrowding?
When you could sleep in the kitchen. Julia Park provides an illuminating history of the many ways landlords and the authorities have dodged their responsibility to provide decent housing rights up to the present day
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OpinionIs it time to tax land value uplift for community benefit?
The uplift in land value has been taxed at rates from 100% in 1947 to zero today. A sensible level of taxation could help fund social infrastructure and affordable housing says Julia Park
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OpinionWith homelessness rising we need action to reverse the trend
50 years after Cathy Come Home homelessness is still rising despite official claims it is decreasing.. Good quality, spacious homes could help tackle the problem says Julia Park
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OpinionThe white paper that wasn’t worth the wait
The housing white paper promises much but does little to tackle the real issues we’re facing, finds Julia Park
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OpinionThe Green Belt: We need to be convinced that the end will justify the means
With the housing white paper due out imminently and talk of building in the Green Belt Julia Park sets out what new developments need to win over the Nimby’s.
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OpinionAffordable housing is back on the agenda
Julia Park runs a ruler over recent announcements to increase the provision of affordable homes and concludes this is mostly good news
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OpinionCan Khan achieve a City For All Londoners?
Julia Park puts Sadiq Khan’s ambitious rhetoric about equality and success under the microscope
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OpinionWhat the Lords have to say about the housing crisis
This summer a House of Lords report set out some informed solutions for our dysfunctional housing market - a shame it’s been overshadowed by all the recent politicking
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OpinionWhen is a home a dwellinghouse and when is it a family unit?
Julia Park shows up the many inconsistencies in the UK’s Use Classes and suggests it is time to rewrite the planning lexicon
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