But the vagueness of the rules on calculating housing need limits the Planning Inspectorate's ability to stop this. 9/n
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So it's potentially welcome that the govt will standardise the objectively assessed housing need methodology. It weakens the NIMBY hand 10/n
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However it is crucial that the calculation method is improved too. At the moment, it is primarily based on population projections. 11/n
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This is a self-fulfilling prophecy at best. If 1000 homes are built, 1000 families move in and your population increases by ~2500. 12/n
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And at worst, local population projections can turn out to be completely wrong for all sorts of unforeseeable socio-economic reasons. 13/n
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So, how should we change the calculation? We need to go back to why we need to build more bloody houses in the first place. 14/n
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The fundamental problem is that housing costs have become unaffordable when compared to people's incomes. That's what we need to fix. 15/n
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That should be the basis for the housing need calculation: the more unaffordable the housing market is, the more houses need building. 16/n
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Affordability varies across the country, so using this as the basis for planning homes should see them built where they're most needed. 17/n
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It is therefore extremely encouraging to hear that the government is going to be reforming housing need calculations in this way. 18/n
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Now for a flat rate on council tax linked to value
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