{"id":5706,"date":"2013-04-26T17:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2013-04-26T17:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:18:03","slug":"build-more-bungalows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5706","title":{"rendered":"Build more bungalows!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ministers have been urged by a think tank to reform the planning system to encourage greater provision of bungalows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That call was highlighted in a paper by the Policy Exchange which argued that the concentration of home ownership among the older population was stoking intergenerational unfairness in the housing market.<\/p>\n<p>According to the right-of-centre think tank one way to improve the position would be to encourage developers to build more homes attractive to the elderly looking to downsize, freeing up family-sized homes for younger families.<\/p>\n<p>It said current rules on density made it almost impossible for developers to build houses without extra floors which had led to a situation where only two per cent of UK housing stock consists of bungalows. In 2009, only 300 bungalows were built.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Morton, Policy Exchange head of housing and planning, said \u2018More homes like bungalows, tailored to the needs of older homeowners, will help free up family-sized properties for the younger generation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Access the Policy Exchange report at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policyexchange.org.uk\/publications\/category\/item\/housing-and-intergenerational-fairness\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/apr13\/250413\/25042013_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers have been urged by a think tank to reform the planning system to encourage greater provision of bungalows. That call was highlighted in a paper by the Policy Exchange which argued that the concentration of home ownership among the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5706\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}