Housing minister Matthew Pennycook is being advised by more figures from anti-housing organisations. The rot has truly set in at MHCLG…
Toby Lloyd, former No10 housing adviser under Theresa May, is blamed for switching the National Planning Policy Framework’s ‘Market Value’ test to what is known as an “Existing Use Value” model which instantly made large numbers of smaller housing sites unviable. Prior to that he was Head of Policy at the leftist charity Shelter…
Lloyd works through a consultancy in partnership with Rose Grayston, who describes herself as an “Expert Adviser to Matthew Pennycook, Minister of State for Housing and Planning.” Pennycook is the bête noire of the pro-housing world…
Grayston also happens to have been a “Policy Manager at Shelter” and curiously a “Senior Programme Manager for the New Economics Foundation.” Grayston was ensonced at the leftist think tank at the same time as MHCLG’s new housing minister Miatta Fahnbulleh was serving as its Chief Executive…
Guido covered Miatta and the NEF’s prescription for the housing market yesterday, which includes rent caps and seizing private land. Another ex-Shelter policy head is meanwhile responsible for housing in No10. Leftists from the charity and the NEF are now running housing policy. Strap in…