John Stewart

John Stewart is Director of Economic Affairs at the Home Builders Federation, formerly the House Builders Federation, and editor of the monthly Housing Market Report. He also manages HBF's two industry trends surveys.

He wrote HBF's submissions to the Barker Review, and managed HBF's dealings with Kate Barker and her team.

His direct responsibilities include the Planning-gain Supplement, the Barker 33 MMC group, Affordable Housing Policy, Customer Satisfaction, the economy, and the housing market.

John has written the monthy Housing Market Report since May 1992, and "Viewpoint", an award-winning monthly column in Housebuilder magazine for over 15 years. His publications include Room to Move? - Reconciling Housing Consumption Aspirations and Land-use Planning, (2005) Building Success: the Economic Role of New Housing in Wales, (2004) Building a Crisis: Housing Under-supply in England, (2002) and for the Council of Mortgage Lenders,Housing and the Economy (1997)

Building a Crisis - Housing under-supply in England was the first report to highlight the growing housing supply crisis, and its social and economic consequences. After extracts were published in Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age, (2001) the full report was initially published online by audacity. We have deleted the online pages, but continue to carry John's pivotal and prophetic research, dating from when British housing production was at a post-war low:

Building a Crisis - Housing under-supply in England (May 2002) 900Kb

John is a highly-regarded conference speaker. Before joining HBF in 2003 he was an independent consultant for over ten years, and previously divisional Sales & Marketing Director for house builder Wates.

Website: www.hbf.co.uk

e-mail: john.stewart@hbf.co.uk

14.00 to 15.30 on Friday 18 May 2007

Planning the English housing market

Summary

How do you have a planning system which has highly desirable, but clearly defined and achievable objectives, within a market economy where more than 85 percent of new homes are built by the private sector for private buyers?

The 1990s showed a rigid plan-led system inevitably results in housing shortages. But has the new planning system in England got the balance right?

Will we solve the crisis in housing supply in England over the next decade?

Planning the English housing market

More to follow shortly...

What priorities do we want reflected in land use planning?

Has the notion of a distinct town and country become unsustainable?

Can planners reconcile government policies with where and how people actually want to live?

Is it justified to describe policies based on constraining building activity as "planning"?

Introduction

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