The system of planning gain in England is supposed to limit what developers can be asked to provide to just those things that are needed to make their proposed development acceptable in planning terms.
Yet in recent years, the government has slowly but surely shifted the system towards a more explicit system of land value capture – where the amount to be paid be developers is unrelated to the actual needs of the development.
In his latest column for Housing Today our managing director, Paul Smith, sets out why we need to be honest about the change and explores how the system could be made better.
