Dr Peter Stafford: Vacant lands could hold key to housing mess
Engaging vacant land may solve the housing crisis
In Britain, 109,000 homes are to be built on idle land, with the British government expecting to sell £5 billion in surplus land by 2020; surely it’s something we should explore
In my last article, I discussed the British government’s policy of identifying and selling publicly-owned land and buildings which are under-used or vacant. I suggested that a similar policy, if adopted here, could lead to the freeing up of much-needed vacant land ...
