The 2013 annual report from Centre for Cities on the comparative performance of UK cities (launched on 21 January 2013), focuses on the potential of cities to boost economic growth through housing investment (both new build and rehab). Drawing on the intial research undertaken as part of the Tensions and Prospects research project, a Briefing Report has been prepared which recognises the value of the Centre for Cities report from an economic development point of view because of the way in which it highlights the importance of housing investment as a stimulus to national and local economic development, but questions its value as a spatial housing strategy. It does not unpick housing need or demand, affordability, or the disbenefits of high prices. Nor does it address properly the mechanisms for delivery, or the potential economic impact of quality and sustainability.
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Centre for Cities Report 2013
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Centre for Cities Report 2013
Our response to the 2013 annual report from Centre for Cities on the comparative performance of UK cities.
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ESRC Interim Report - October 2012
As we approach the end of the first year of the project, the team has produced and interim report to highlight progress made and identify next steps, raising questions and beginning to provide some answers.
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Making more land available for development
On 28 November 2012 in an interview on Newsnight the Planning Minister, Nick Boles called for a major increase in the amount of land allocated for new housing in England and a significant increase in the quality of what is built.