Owning your own home

Their must be a reason why the planners keep on rejecting their proposals. Perhaps they should employ some talented design professionals to design affordable housing rather than get into bed with large developers who have no interest in providing well built, well designed and well proportioned houses.

I agree, but the stumbling block isn't usually design. It's absurd stuff like 'loss of farmland' - we have fuckloads of the stuff and farmers have to get subsidies to make a living, sacrificing a bit for houses means more places to live and less subsidies.

The other one is size. Government policy is for a max of 20 units on one site, even if surveys show there is a need for many times that amount. It's unnecessarily obstructive.

Design is way down the list. In fact, social housing is often bigger and less dense than commercial housing.