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John Paddington's avatar

As well as density - we need to look at opening hours. I live and work in Birmingham City Centre and I would happily go shopping in an evening but most places close around 7pm.

I'm sure density would help this as well.

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Jamie Thunder's avatar

"I’m struggling to imagine why a Labour government using public money to create a state property developer that will design and build and then sell off private homes can do anything other than turn a massive profit, given the wider housing pressures"

Not an economist, but the question for me is "if there's all that money on the table, why hasn't a private developer snaffled it?" And I suspect the answer is "planning", which would also be a problem for a public developer unless a) you fixed planning (in which case you'd not need the public developer) or b) you exempted the public developer (but why should they get an easier ride?)

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