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  • You are therefore 100% correct. The only way to control house prices is for the government to build houses.

    Granting planning for lots of houses is not enough, they need to be built.

    Maybe councils could compulsory purchase sites that have had planning for 10 years but not been built.

  • had planning for 10 years

    Planning permission expires after 3 years and you can no longer simply renew it. The intention was to prevent land banking but developers know how to work around that rule of course.

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