Clearly, with many of the manifesto comments being soundbite representations of a wider policy objectives, we can expect lots of the detail to be missing from these documents. However, they do provide an important overview of the priorities and direction for each party.
With much pre-election-announcement commentary about housing, many of the housing and planning-related policies have been well-trailed already. However, the manner in which they are presented within each manifesto also indicates the importance that each party is giving to these critical policy matters. Most notably, Labour’s manifesto positions its proposed planning reforms and housing delivery as a key mechanism to “kickstart economic growth”, indicating the wide-ranging opportunity it creates beyond simply meeting housing needs.
This Insight unpacks the commitments made by the leading political parties in relation to housing delivery. It focuses on their policy objectives and – where they have set them out – consider the mechanisms they propose to achieve these, as well as the steps that they might need to take to do so.
