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This paper provides a critical perspective on England's housing crisis, characterised here as a concentration of wealth in residential property which is driving up prices and reducing access to the homes that people need. Housing has become a wealth machine and government has arguably lost sight of its social function. It is important that planning draws a functional distinction between housing as an asset, and housing as a social good. The paper ends by considering how a decoupling of housing's 'home' and 'asset' functions might be achieved through land-use policy.

Social dramas and planning judgementIn this article we discuss the situated nature of planning judgement. Rather than focusing on its ethical content we use an ethnographic study of performances present in the hearings into the application to expand the A303, a road running south of Stonehenge, to interpret the connection of planning judgement both to the immediate context of the recommendation to withhold consent for a large disruptive infrastructure project in an already contested highly valued historic landscape and the broader context of the responsibilities decisions on road infrastructure have towards future generations.

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