The Government has prioritised planning reform as its key policy lever to deliver an ambitious target of 1.5 million additional homes by the end of this Parliament. This note explores the extent to which the proposed reforms to the planning system will help reach this target, while also highlighting other constraints on housing supply that … Continued| Resolution Foundation
Building trams in Britain costs more than twice as much as it does in the rest of Europe| www.samdumitriu.com
How 80,000 pages and irregular funding lead to higher infrastructure costs| benhopkinson.substack.com
When Rishi Sunak cancelled HS2 at Conservative Conference, he announced the money would instead go on a wave of transport projects across the North.| benhopkinson.substack.com
At 2.4-miles long the Lower Thames Crossing is set to be Britain’s longest road tunnel.| Britain Remade
One of the goals of this newsletter is to figure out ways to improve construction productivity and reduce the costs of construction, particularly residential construction (ie: housing) - if you could reduce the costs of construction, housing costs would fall as well.| www.construction-physics.com
Britain had its fastest ever house price growth not in the 2020s but in the 1970s. Houses then were also getting smaller and worse. The problem was a lack of supply.| worksinprogress.co
Why a hotter world might be a more dangerous, violent, and less productive one| www.worksinprogress.news
Proposed data centre would spoil views from pedestrian bridges crossing the motorway| The Telegraph
How a small tweak to business rates could be the carrot to Labour's planning stick| www.sambowman.co
Ofgem is minded to reject all but one of the interconnector projects applying for authorisation in the cap and floor regime| Watt-Logic
A Labour government will deliver economic stability with tough spending rules, boost growth, build 1.5 million new homes and create jobs.| The Labour Party
Estimates which provide the breakdown of dwellings and households by tenure, for local authority districts in England, on an annual basis.| www.ons.gov.uk
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home. In this series, we examine the challenges of accelerating the American AI data center buildout. Future pieces will be published| www.construction-physics.com
Let's allow any design approved in the US or Europe to be built in Britain| www.samdumitriu.com
What we can do to make nuclear cheaper| www.samdumitriu.com
Or: more reasons why, and how, we should speed up building new nuclear| normielisation.substack.com
Monthly house price inflation in the UK, calculated using data from HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland.| www.ons.gov.uk
What’s the best idea in politics that nobody’s ever heard of? I think it’s what’s called “full expensing”, a tweak to the corporation tax rules that could eliminate a lot of the damage that tax does. It’s obscure in Britain, but new evidence is beginning to show that it might just be the single best| Adam Smith Institute
Building infrastructure doesn't need to come at the cost of the environment. But it does need smarter rules.| worksinprogress.co
The history of attempts to reform planning in Britain is proof that political willpower is not enough: you need to be smart, not just brave.| worksinprogress.co
Death rates are measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity.| Our World in Data
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.| NBER
Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States| fred.stlouisfed.org
Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more to build in Britain| www.samdumitriu.com
How our inflexible planning system discourages cheaper, greener changes| www.samdumitriu.com
New fire safety rules will come at a high cost| www.samdumitriu.com
We aren't leading the world: we're trying to catch up| www.sambowman.co
Following on from a post about Warren Buffett, it seems appropriate to carry on with the theme and talk about capital allocation, this time in the public sector.| inthesightoftheunwise.substack.com
Planning for major solar projects isn't working so developers are keeping projects small.| www.samdumitriu.com
What to think about Rishi's radical corporate tax reform| www.samdumitriu.com
Building more homes in the most productive cities could massively boost productivity| www.worksinprogress.news
Real Journey Time, Real City Size, and the disappearing productivity puzzle.| www.tomforth.co.uk
