All articles by Ian Tant
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CommentGarden City Prize: Now the hard work begins
Barton Willmore’s Ian Tant on how a housing obsession bagged a place on the prestigious Wolfson Prize shortlist
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CommentNew planning guidance waters down government growth commitment
Revised guidance produced with an eye to 2015 election, rather than maximising growth
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CommentThere's method behind Labour's attack on builders
Proposed planning changes to promote smaller sites could help deliver more homes
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Comment2013: The year in which planning started to work
Increasing planning approvals have demonstrated the NPPF is working, but there will be more reform for 2014
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CommentWhen planning co-operation spells paralysis
The government’s well-intentioned introduction of a ‘duty to co-operate’ between councils is a serious problem
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CommentCIL: a tax on all your houses
Could the Community Infrastructure Levy be more of a brake on housebuilding than local opposition?
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CommentThe flaw in Miliband's plan
The Labour leader’s ideas on land-banking aren’t the answer to delivering homes in a recession
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CommentThe limitations of the localist agenda
Three years on from Eric Pickles’ changes, we must help the government get planning right
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CommentWhy bigger is better when it comes to housing
Ian Tant asks if it is right for the government to promote its ambitions for large scale developments?
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NewsWho will deliver the eco-towns?
The government is breathing life into eco-towns, but the past 18 months have been profoundly discouraging for the private sector