trevor dennington
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Friday, June 15, 2007 12:52 PM
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The RTPI report forming part of its evidence to the Callcutt Review of Housing Delivery (Opening Up The Debate : Exploring Housing Land Supply Myths") makes 5 recommendations which would require "house builders" to 'declare' the amount of land they currently control with planning permission in each local authority area.
This would allow the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (Oh Gawd, not ANOTHER Quango?) to regularly publish
(i) the amount of land held with planning permission broken down by lpa area and developer
(ii) the amount of land held in strategic landbanks, by lpa area and developer
(iii) the number of houses completed each year, by lpa area and developer.
Are these people living in some kind of bureaucrats Dreamland, or what ?
Do they really believe that developers and housebuilders are going to willingly "declare" all of this commercially sensitive information to be picked over by their competitors, subcontractors, et al ?
Do they not realise that developers/housebuilders will simply form additional companies - perhaps many of them - to act as site-holding companies so that they don't have to reveal such sensitive information from which their competitors could benefit ?
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