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SUMMARY:Localised Planning\, Sub-regional Housing Markets and Affordabilit
 y Outcomes: What is Likely to Happen? - Prof. Glen Bramley - Institute for
  Housing\, Urban and Real Estate Research\, School of the Built Environmen
 t\, Heriot-Watt University
DTSTART:20111012T121500Z
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CONTACT:Peter Armitage
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: After half a decade of strong 'top down' policy an
 d planning to promote housing supply and affordability in England\, we hav
 e from 2010 an abrupt change of policy. Decisions are to be devolved to lo
 cal level\, with no more government targets and the dismantling of regiona
 l planning. A financial bonus is intended to incentivize local authorities
  to agree to additional house-building. It is quite unclear a priori how t
 his system will work\, so it may be regarded as a large-scale social-econo
 mic (and environmental) experiment. This paper will utilise a new subregio
 nal\neconomic market model to explore the affordability implications of di
 fferent patterns of local decision-making on housing land supply. It will 
 also feed in a predicted pattern of local decisions based on new opinion s
 urvey evidence and political voting patterns.\n\n*Biography*: Glen Bramley
  is Professor of Urban Studies at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh\, wh
 ere he leads a substantial research programme in housing and urban studies
 . Recent work is focused particularly on planning for new housing\, housin
 g need\, home ownership\, neighbourhood change\, urban form\, quality of l
 ife\, poverty and the funding and outcomes of local services. His publicat
 ions include Key Issues in Housing (Palgrave 2005)\, and Planning\, the Ma
 rket and Private Housebuilding (UCL Press 1995).
LOCATION:First-floor Classroom\, Department of Architecture\, 1-5 Scroope 
 Terrace\, Cambridge\, CB2 1PX\, www.arct.cam.ac.uk.
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