Author: The Thorncliffe team

ABOVE: Oliver Banks chatting with Robert Blackman-Woods Labour have just launched their new Plannning Commission policy at their conference. We caught up with our shadow minister for planning, Roberta Blackman-Woods beforehand to discuss the party’s ambitions for the NPPF, Local Plans and the Housing Crisis. At this year’s Labour Conference Brexit, antisemitism, factional power struggles… Continue reading The Labour Planning Paradox

Labour is about to launch their new Plannning Commission policy at conference. We caught up with our shadow minister for planning, Roberta Blackman-Woods beforehand to discus the parties ambitions for the NPPF, Local Plans and the Housing Crisis. More later… Housing Housing was one of the areas chosen for debate by Constituency Labour Parties (it… Continue reading Labour to launch Planning Commission policy.

Above:  Thorncliffe colleague Oli Hazell leads a discussion on housing policy For a Prime Minister often supposed to be obsessed with Brexit to the exclusion of every other issue, Theresa May has certainly made many speeches on housing. This week she became the first PM to speak at the National Housing Federation summit, and made… Continue reading Housing – the most important domestic priority?

On 1 April 2019, there will be many failed attempts to write funny April fool stories in the morning papers, and the map of English local government will change for the first time in a decade. In Dorset, Suffolk and Somerset, and probably Buckinghamshire, new merged councils will take over. Successive governments of both parties… Continue reading New merged councils coming in April next year

Now the dust has settled across London after May’s borough council elections what key themes are emerging for housing where there has been notable changes in Council leadership or composition? We take a look at some of the councils in London that have experienced the most change since May and housing policies in those boroughs.… Continue reading Where next for housing in politically changing London boroughs?

Nominations closed to be the 2020 Conservative candidate for Mayor of London at the beginning of the month, and the party has now announced its longlist of 10, which will be whittled down to a shortlist soon for party members to choose before the party conference. Who are they and what would they mean for… Continue reading Conservative Mayoral hopefuls