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Instead of drop-kicking the planners, shouldn’t we really half-nelson the rich?

Instead of drop-kicking the planners, shouldn’t we really half-nelson the rich?

The blame game over who’s responsible for England’s housing crisis and silver-bullet “here’s-the-answer” approaches to solving it is growing into a national sport. Various interest groups, professions, political parties, social classes, business groups and their mouthpieces come under fire. Meanwhile, each fires back their silver bullet, with a crowd of suitably-armed commentators joining in. With this kind of entertainment the lobby to encourage ITV to re-run World of Sport wrestling must be flagging. With that sad image in mind, I…

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The number of architects, planners and surveyors signing off the claimant count in the six months to October 2009 to head abroad was 985. This compares with 80 in same period two years earlier. Source: National Statistics (Nomis: www.nomisweb.co.uk).  Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI).