In episode three, Melissa McDonald, development lawyer at Mills & Reeve, speaks to Paul Mumford, project director at Urban&Civic, and Mike Jenner, development manager at Urban&Civic.  

Hear Urban&Civic’s thoughts around whether there is a national housing crisis or is it simply in the South East. The team also discuss the strength of the UK planning system, how an alignment between master developers and the planning system could be the key to delivery and whether New Towns are the possible solution.  

Whilst there was a lot of positivity, the team discuss a few things they believe are blocking house building:  

• Political nervousness around local plans
• Not enough buy-in early on in the planning process
• Lack of large scale sites