Interactive Planning Permission Map

Politics.co.uk has visualised the way in which planning permission requests vary across the country by local authority. Find out more about planning permission requests in your local area, and how this compares to the rest of the UK.  Click here or use the tool below: Map produced using the interactive constituency mapping tool, PoliMapper. Data […]

Planning reform: another brick in the wall

It has become something of a joke that planning permission in the UK takes forever to attain. The government is trying to address this, as well as issues around affordable homes, with a drastic overhaul to planning rules. “The current planning system in the UK is highly discretionary,” explained Anthony Breach, a senior analyst for […]

The impossible property ladder

The property ladder is a metaphor synonymous in the UK for a person’s desire to progress through the various stages of homeownership.  Whether it’s due to a shortage of affordable homes, salaries outstripping house prices, or even the heavier tax burdens facing Britain’s younger generation, making that first step onto the property ladder has arguably […]

Majority of young Brits want a socialist economic system

A majority of young Britons would like to live under a socialist economic system, according to new research.