Planning Minister: Own house and garden a 'moral right'
Nick Boles has told BBC Newsnight that people have a "moral right to own a house and garden".
The Planning Minister was discussing how to address the chronic housing shortage in England alongside Peter Redfern of house-builders Taylor Wimpey, residents' rights campaigner Maria Bennett and designer Wayne Hemingway.
Boles said building on another 2-3% of the land in England - bringing the total to about 12% - would "solve the housing problem."
29 Nov 2012
- From the section UK Politics