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Housing Supply and Planning Delay in the South of England

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  • Michael Ball

    (Department of Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

  • Phil Allmendinger
  • Cathy Hughes

    (Department of Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading)

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There is growing international interest in the impact of regulatory controls on the supply of housing The UK has a particularly restrictive planning regime and a detailed and uncertain process of development control linked to it. This paper presents the findings of empirical research on the time taken to gain planning permission for selected recent major housing projects from a sample of local authorities in southern England. The scale of delay found was far greater than is indicated by average official data measuring the extent to which local authorities meet planning delay targets. If these results are representative of the country as a whole, they indicate that planning delay could be a major cause of the slow responsiveness of British housing supply.

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  • Michael Ball & Phil Allmendinger & Cathy Hughes, 2008. "Housing Supply and Planning Delay in the South of England," Real Estate & Planning Working Papers rep-wp2008-04, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
    • Handle: RePEc:rdg:repxwp:rep-wp2008-04
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    1. Liam Clegg & Fay Farstad, 2021. "The local political economy of the regulatory state: Governing affordable housing in England," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(1), pages 168-184, January.

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