Let’s have an informed debate about Greenbelt/Greybelt release in London. - There is enough Greenbelt land within the boundaries of Greater London – 32,500 hectares – to build 1.6 million houses at average densities. - Only 22% of that land is public access and environmentally

Every surgery I hold has families in desperate need of housing, with kids sleeping on floors & sofas. We need a radical approach that is honest about the low quality & under-use of some of what we call green belt - but is really grey belt. Sadiq Khan showing real courage here.

Fuck off George you insufferable prick

Blimey: Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that the UK economy grew by 0.7% in Q1 of 2025, blowing away the recession talk, and almost certainly the fastest growing economy in the G7 in that period….

Iain is correct. We still live in the shadow of the financial crisis and collapse in growth that followed. Median earnings today are at least £10k below where they would have been if continued on previous 50 year trend. From that has followed a lot of our political dysfunction.

This is a popular policy with the public - requiring new homes to have solar panels fitted by default and to have heat pumps is supported across the political spectrum - including by a plurality of Reform UK voters.

Look at how stark this: Reform has clear leads among voters who have the lowest life satisfaction, while Labour is ahead among those with the v.highest life satisfaction.Further evidence rise of Reform being driven by “I may as well roll the dice” dissatisfaction with status quo

The moral case for planning reform could not be clearer, as Chris Curtis MP highlights We want to see a world where children aren’t growing up in temporary accommodation and families aren’t saddled down by obscene energy bills That’s why we’re builders, not blockers

Just on Times Radio talking about the Green Party wealth tax proposal. The usual populist stuff about magically raising lots of money from Other People. But in reality the Green Party manifesto raised marginal income tax rate to *72%* for a graduate with three kids earning £60k.

Very proud of my husband Nathan Parsad-Wyatt - and his business partner Kevin McKeever - on the launch of their new public affairs and communications consultancy today, Hedry. They’re going to do great things. Find out more: hedry.co.uk

News: Kevin McKeever and Nathan Parsad-Wyatt launch strategic #PublicAffairs consultancy - Hedry - to help organisations lead through change --> read all about it on the #PubAffairs industry #news page: tinyurl.com/5a228wf8

This is fascinating looking at who would Brits vote against. Reform lower than I might have thought. But what jumps out to me is a quarter of Tory voters would pick Reform as the party they would vote against, doesn’t suggest you can add them together like Lego bricks.

Have your say on the DLR extension to Thamesmead (Royal Borough of Greenwich), help unlock improved transport infrastructure, the local economy and potential for more housing and improved placemaking for new and existing residents.

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The Government says London needs to build 88,000 homes a year. Last year, it started 3,990. My column today is on the urgent national crisis no one is talking about - the collapse of housebuilding in London (1/?)

Molior London As I and others have pointed out, deliberations around the new second staircases rules froze the market for years, then they were implemented at a height which effectively killed the traditional mansion block - with literally zero evidence that any lives would be saved.

(Here's the impact assessment, which suggests a cost:benefit ratio of 294:1. And as I've written elsewhere, those numbers didn't even include the loss of residential floorspace, so the true figure should be an order of magnitude higher assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6605c8cd…)

But the bigger problem now is the new Building Safety Regulator. This is trying to sign off every single building, one by one. Which it doesn't have the expertise or resources to do. So many, many projects are getting stuck - or not put forward at all. x.com/rcolvile/statu…

As a result, we restrict opportunity to the rich - while everyone else suffers. Please give it a read, especially if you're in the housing department... thetimes.com/comment/column…

(Another, shorter way of putting the above is that you can have all the planning permissions you like, but people will only build if it's viable to build. And in London today, it isn't.)