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The boroughs are back in town

Shop Talk

English - October 10, 2018 08:27 - 19 minutes - 28.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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We are approaching the end of 2018 and London's housing targets have been missed again.
The pressure to deliver more homes has been rising relentlessly for years now, something had to give.
Last week it did.
Even with all the modern construction techniques, we have at our disposal today, all the money washing around the capital, we haven't been able to deliver homes at anywhere near the rate we did in the 1930s.
So what's was different then?
We talk to a panel of experts for their response to last week's announcement that the borrowing cap placed on London's 33 boroughs, effectively stopping them building, has been lifted. This game-changing move will have dramatic and far-reaching consequences for the whole supply chain.
Featuring;
Jo McCafferty, Director at Levitt Bernstein, Rolf Neilsen Associate Partner at CF Moller, Anthony Thistleton Director at Waugh Thistleton Architects, and finally John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing