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Why Pickles Has Suspended Welsh Streets Demolition 25 Jul 2013 | 04:38 pm
The Mayor and Liverpool City councillors are cursing Eric Pickles for suspending their decision to demolish the Welsh Streets. Pickles won’t care about their curses of course, the fact that this is th...
Demolishing the Welsh Streets 25 Jul 2013 | 03:45 pm
Normal 0 Liverpool council’s planning committee decision to demolish most of the Welsh Streets and replace it with a far smaller number of larger suburban housing association homes is the latest cha...
My Article in this month's RICS magazine MODUS 3 May 2013 | 01:01 pm
Whatever else you might heave heard; this much is true; bringing empty homes into use won’t solve the housing supply crisis by itself. But that’s no reason not do it. It’s equally clear that the curr...
empty homes to drop to zero next year 8 Mar 2013 | 04:53 pm
Normal 0 The number of empty homes in England is set to drop to zero next year. This may sound improbable, but if you follow current projections of house building rates and household formations it m...
Where are they now? The abandoned backdrops to 80's videos 10 Jan 2013 | 10:03 pm
Empty buildings seemed to be a common backdrop for music videos in the 1980s. So I thought it would be interesting to look at a few and see what's happened to the buildings now. The video for the Hum...
Big house builders, Less houses, more profit 12 Dec 2012 | 10:12 pm
You know the argument so I won’t dwell on it. But we need more homes and yet we’re building less. I have argued before that the real problem is affordability not supply, but the government certainly d...
A letter to Graham Jones MP 11 Dec 2012 | 09:04 pm
Dear Graham, I’ve just seen your latest blog post, and seeing as you were good enough to mention us, I thought it deserved a reply. If I can summarise you make three points: “It’s a false argument t...
The Great British Property Scandal 7 Nov 2012 | 10:04 pm
Tonight Channel 4 will broadcast a new Great British Property Scandal TV programme. It follows the progress that has been made over the last eleven months since the original series was broadcast and i...
Don't Build More Homes 27 Sep 2012 | 02:27 pm
My article was published on the Guardian's website earlier in the week with the slightly unfortuante title "Don't Build More Homes" The point I'm making is not that we shouldn't build more homes. I'm ...
Stalled development and long walks for the milk 3 Mar 2012 | 01:45 am
I like this blog, although its rather odd name fails to explain what its about. The pint of milk test was as far as I can remember first coined by think tank IPPR as a theoretical test on the accessib...
