Increasing road capacity on the A30 – building problems for the future.
With the continuing work on constructing a new wider and bigger A30 road between Chiverton cross and Carland cross, what is missing is a...
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ALTERNATIVE CORNWALL -AN ANALYSIS
rpwills
- May 30, 2023
- 2 min
Labour - buying land cheap to boost housing supply - a non-solution to a non-problem
"Labour is planning to give local officials sweeping new powers to buy land cheaply and develop on it, as part of the party’s new...
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rpwills
- May 28, 2023
- 1 min
We need more tourists in Lisbon, never mind the local housing need!
The UK is not alone facing a housing crisis. But as is often the case, its not a supply issue that is responsible for a lack of available...
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rpwills
- May 18, 2023
- 3 min
The housing (non-existent) shortfall – how not to work out your figures!
This February, a report published by the Centre for Cities revealed that the UK had not been building enough houses and had a shortfall...
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rpwills
- May 12, 2023
- 2 min
More young people living at home - must be the usual suspects (NIMBYs) but what is the real cause?
The danger of journalists commenting on policy areas outside their areas of expertise is that they often draw the wrong conclusions from...
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rpwills
- May 11, 2023
- 1 min
Holiday retreat, a bolthole - how many second homes in Cornwall?
The issue of second homes in Cornwall is one that raises questions about housing policy - how many we build and for what purpose. Second...
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rpwills
- May 1, 2023
- 3 min
Labour party housing policy - trapped in the 300,000 target cobweb!
The housebuilding target of 300,000 dwellings a year is firmly enmeshed in both the political world and media commentary. So frequently...
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rpwills
- Apr 26, 2023
- 1 min
Cornish economy - output up in 2021 but a recovery from the pandemic?
Latest output data - measured as Gross Value Added - from the Office for National Statistics tells us that the economy in 2021 had...
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rpwills
- Apr 3, 2023
- 1 min
More houses than households - huh?
That may come as news to many people but its actually the case.The increase in the number of houses has exceeded the increase in the...
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rpwills
- Apr 3, 2023
- 0 min
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