All Change? Potential Land Use And Planning Policy Changes Under A New Government

In June, we wrote a quick summary of the report “Land for the Many”. Land for the Many was written by a team headed by George Monbiot and made proposals for the Labour Party to consider as future land use and planning policy. We subsequently wrote a longer article on the report, which was first published in this month’s edition of Property Law Journal and is also available at lawjournals.co.uk. Since then, the Labour Party has confirmed some of the land use and planning proposals that will be adopted as Labour Party policy. These include: that new public development corporations will have the power to buy and develop land in the public interest, and that they will be able to do so at what Land for the Many called “near use” value (similar to “existing use” value); that information on planning and land ownership, etc, should be published as “open data”; that affordable rents will be set locally so that they are genuinely affordable; that there will be a significant