What financial pressures does new housing put on local authorities? How does this vary between types and tenure of home, and to what extent are these costs recovered through developer contributions, council tax and other forms of local authority revenue?
Background
Enhancing our understanding of the longer-term best methodologies for evaluating the impact of different interventions, and the recent experiences of reform outside of England both across the UK and internationally, to inform our own reforms.
Next steps
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: [email protected] and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: [email protected].
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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The homes and communities investment evidence collaboration
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Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to embed up to date and authoritative research in the HCA's investment decision-making, which includes providing investment for new affordable housing and improving existing social housing.
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Boosting the supply of affordable rented housing in the UK: learning from other countries
Places for People (PfP), one of the largest housing development and management organisations in the UK, will partner the Centre for Comparative Housing Research (CCHR) at De Montfort University in this knowledge exchange...
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Lead research organisation: De Montfort University
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Tackling planning delays and housing under-supply across England: Can inter-municipal cooperation between local planning authorities help?
There are significant and stubborn backlogs in the English planning system. Government statistics, which are known to under-estimate planning delays (Ball, 2011), show that less than half of development applications sent...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Southampton
Why might this be relevant?
Partially answers the question by addressing planning delays and housing under-supply, but does not directly address financial pressures on local authorities.