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The evolution of a planning and affordable housing strategy in the United Kingdom since the early 1970s has run parallel to wider debates affecting the operation of the planning system. This paper aims to unravel the principal strands of these debates. However, given the nature of the debates, the paper is forced to navigate a difficult path between the functional issues of (local) implementation and the higher concerns of national planning policy. It concludes by exploring the Labour Government's most recent policy statements and expresses a need to view the strategy as part of a broader suite of housing and planning policies that attract and are granted necessary funding.
Nick Gallent (Sat,) studied this question.