Featuring Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, and specialist in the economic effects of the planning system.

Topics covered

• Inelasticity of housing supply
• The green belt and sprawl
• Congestion charging and transit-oriented development
• Intergenerational economic warfare (owners vs. renters)
• NIMBY: Generalised benefits to development, local costs
• Government loans to homebuilders
• Help to buy: economic absurdity and political opportunism
• Infrastructure spending in Cambridge
• Garden cities