On The Abundance Agenda this week:
Martin debunks the myth of ‘land-banking’ – and explains why all of the incentives for housing developers are totally broken.
James explores a new paper which sets out how the government could conceivably build Heathrow’s notorious third runway… before the next election!
And we speak to the excellent Michael Dnes about how a focus on time can speed up infrastructure planning – and he breaks James’s brain with the true story of Britain approving a nuclear plant in a national park… in just three days.
You can find “Getting Britain Off The Ground” at Labour Together or the Centre for British Progress.
The IPPR paper Martin was not a massive fan of is here.
Michael Dnes’s paper on “Making Britain Build Again” is here.
Michael also mentions a thread he did on the prospects of reviving HS2 to Manchester – you can find it here.
Ian Mansfield’s piece on the case for closing Heathrow and building Boris Island is here.
James’s latest is on Nigel Farage and the threat a Reform government might pose to Britain’s institutions.
Martin’s latest is on the troubles at the ONS and how weirdly precisely we measure GDP.
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