This year’s planning statistics are a stark reminder of the clear failings of our planning system. Phillip Brett mydup.com/news/planning-…

The government should legislate to ban ALL politicians from objecting to planning. It'll get public representatives off the hook for having to make spurious planning objections on behalf NIMBY constituents and making themselves look like massive hypocrites.

We are starting to see a decline in the birth rate among young people because it is obvious that in order to have children and feel safe, they want to be able to see that they can have a safe home in the future. At present, young people have no certainty”. euronews.com/2023/07/06/ire…

Over 20,000 people are on the housing waiting list, rents are up 52%, and home ownership remains a pipedream for many. The only long-term solution to the housing crisis: build more homes. Yet time and time again, Green Party councillors oppose them. bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

Spent some time yesterday with a property developer looking around an estate of 3,500 homes they've just completed. It took two decades to complete from buying the land to final hoardings removal. Half of that was applying for planning permission. Yes, it took a decade to get

Both Rent and mortgage payments represent a lower proportion of disposable income in Northern Ireland than in any other UK region.

How the blithering flip would a *rent freeze* mean anything other than competing with EVEN MORE people for the same property? A supply crisis can’t be solved with price controls. This is basic stuff.

NI continues to have the most affordable housing among UK regions new Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis suggests. It uses ratios of house prices to annual disposable household incomes: Eng: 8.4 Wales: 6.4 Scotland: 5.3 NI: 5.1

Northern Ireland is the region of the UK where it is most affordable to buy a house, official data from Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests bbc.in/44ISoHs

Ireland's demographics WTF? The largest population decline in Europe 19th/20th century - a mass extinction event - now the fastest rising population in the 21st century! Ireland, outlier's outlier.

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The number of enquires for each rental property was up nearly five-fold on the figure recorded in the pre-Covid-19 era of July 2019. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/north…

The Lower Thames Crossing’s planning application alone costs more than twice as much as it cost Norway to actually build the world’s longest road tunnel. And we wonder why we’re not growing… samdumitriu.com/p/a-boring-sto…

Economists noted that remote and hybrid working has made cross-border working more viable, which could leave Ireland’s “higher wages and wider opportunities” open to more people in NI. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/jobs/…

Starmer says he wants 1.5m more houses over the next parliament. Just 300,000 a year. The UK needs 4m more houses to catch up to the European average. Just 1.5m houses will not plug the gap. We will still have a housing shortage.

Delighted for @LaganHomes sponsorship of the Labour Movement for Europe Rally at #LabourConference

Rent prices have soared by 15% over the past year in some parts of the north, new analysis by PropertyPal suggests irishnews.com/business/2023/…

Sir Robert Chote: “Water and sewerage services are essential to public health, environmental protection and economic development. The current funding model is not fit for purpose…

Members of Northern Ireland's budget watchdog express scepticism about the Executive's main proposal to deal with a water infrastructure crisis. bbc.in/4jZukH7

Northern Ireland's infrastructure capacity constraints are the issue that keep the boss of Invest NI up at night. bbc.in/44txtKB