Item From Ian — Disguised Inflation

Please just a little analysis before posting. Inflation is are average costs for everything (more or less). Only small percentage of people are purchasing a house in a particular year plus many rent. Thus the number of people spending 10% more for housing is pretty small. Plus housing is about 1/3 of household costs.

“An acre of rural land worth £10,000 becomes an acre of land worth as much as £1m once it has planning permission. That is an expensive and needless cost of government.”
This article is a comprehensive indictment of planning departments, government deficit spending. Is also a call for austerity and to allow building on the ALR.
Altogether a Guardian article that is extremely libertarian. Amazing that it got past the editors.