Recently, discussing with a developer friend the fact that none of their small infill planning-consented schemes are actually viable now and are unbuildable because of it, I felt the familiar frustration.

Behind Steve Reed’s plan to reduce London’s affordable housing quota from 35% to 20% lies a deeper truth: we’ve systematically excluded the very people best placed to solve our housing crisis. Small and medium-sized developers, working with trusted local contractors, once delivered nearly 40% of Britain’s homes. Today, they build just 10%.

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