http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/taxonomy/term/24/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/systemic_fiscal_reform_%28Neale_Upstone%29 <p>Neale Upstone over there in &quot;Tabs&quot; joins the Lib Dem LVT supporting section of the blogosphere...welcome Neale!</p> http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/systemic_fiscal_reform_%28Neale_Upstone%29#comments Permanent Lib Dem Lib Dem Bloggers Land Value Tax Land/Housing Henry George Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:10:18 +0000 Jock 902 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/singapore_buys_bit_british_democratic_history <p> Apropos of nothing in particular, this little snippet of news... </p> <blockquote> <p> <em>The government of Singapore has built up a 3 per cent stake in British<br /> Land, the FTSE 100 property group that has seen its market value dive<br /> with the rest of the UK property sector.</em> </p> </p></blockquote> <p> ...prompted me to mention something that many might not know and that I discovered while researching the history of things that could loosely be linked to community land trusts or mutual housing schemes that I am working on elsewhere. </p> <p> British Land plc is the successor of something called the National Freehold Land Society, which was founded by nineteenth century liberals, foremost amongst them Richard Cobden and John Bright, as a way of subverting the restriction that only those with freehold property had the vote. They would club together, buy up swathes of land around inner cities and parcel it off to households at a minimum nominal value of the £50 you had to be worth in land to vote. </p> <p> Much of the familiar nineteenth century townscape of Britain was developed by this and other temporary building societies and similar vehicles, including a less successful one established by the Tories that I think also has a successor plc today (Slough Estates maybe?). </p> <p> Quite often, if you see streets where every other house is of a slightly different nineteenth century design you will find that many of these were built by these mutuals. Members would get allocated their land and then the whole mutual would save money until they could afford to build a house, then the whole process would start again until all the members were housed. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/singapore_buys_bit_british_democratic_history">&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</a></span></p> http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/singapore_buys_bit_british_democratic_history#comments Land/Housing Affordable Housing co-operative constitutional reform Positive Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:10:15 +0000 Jock 780 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/oclt_blog <p> The OCLT Blog </p> Permanent Housing/CLTs Land/Housing Affordable Housing Green Belt Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:16:07 +0000 Jock 520 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/housing_bubble_blog <p> Examining the home price boom and its effect on owners, lenders, regulators, realtors and the economy as a whole. </p> Permanent Housing/CLTs Land/Housing Affordable Housing Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:15:43 +0000 Jock 519 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/unlocking_potential_empty_homes <p> Unlocking the Potential of Empty Homes </p> Permanent Land Value Tax Housing/CLTs Land/Housing Affordable Housing Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:15:22 +0000 Jock 518 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk