Reform
Street Votes
Street votes are a new, non-partisan idea to empower communities to say yes to the right housing where they wish. They are meant as a supplement to the existing planning system. The idea is that residents on individual streets could jointly propose rules on the design of extensions or other construction on their street. If they wish, they could allow more extensions of a particular design, or more ambitious development.
Community land auctions
Community land auctions are an exciting policy idea that could help us build more housing whilst ensuring that local communities see the benefit of allowing development near them.
Currently, when land is given planning permission for new homes it can increase in value by over 80 times. Currently, the vast majority of this goes to the landowner and other players, with very little captured by the local authority. Community land auctions would give councils the tools to capture much more of the value uplift, which they can then spend on local priorities, like improved infrastructure and better public services.