This is the press release issued by Labour regarding the Grey Belt proposition. Labour pledges housebuilding drive on Grey Belt with ‘golden rules’ to boost public services, affordable homes and improve green spaces Keir Starmer has today [Friday] set out five ‘golden rules’ for Grey Belt housebuilding, pledging to deliver affordable homes, boost infrastructure and public services like schools and GPs, and improve genuine green spaces. Building 1.5 million homes over the next parliament is a key plank of Labour’s policy programme, with a promise to reform planning rules at pace, to “take on the blockers and back the dream of home ownership.” While reiterating that Labour will always take a 'brownfield first' approach to housing development, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are also pledging to release some land currently classed as Green Belt to build the homes Britain needs, “in light of abject Tory failure to build the homes our country needs.” On a visit to a housing developme
If you have listened to episode 118 of the podcast you will have heard that it is the last to be supported by Cavendish. If you listened to episode 100 all the way through you will know that, when I first committed to starting a podcast I had to then work out how to do so, and being frankly too lazy to learn how to mix and edit and too tight to buy any kit myself, I needed a sponsor. Late one night, possibly after a glass of wine, or two, I tweeted something tongue-in-cheek along the lines of ‘do any of my work friends responsible for a marketing budget want to get in on the ground floor of the country’s next big podcast’. Kevin Whitmore at BECG, now Cavendish, emailed me the next day inviting me to have a chat and whatever the podcast has become is because of that. I will always be grateful to Kevin for backing the podcast to this point and to the wider team at Cavendish who have helped me with the editing, latterly Ashley Bellinger. I would also like to thank Ellis Robinson and Vicky