In this episode, Paul once again sits down to speak to Lewis Herbert to talk about the really important issues of homelessness and the housing crisis. As well as discussing how we got here, they look at some of the potential solutions, including the use of modular housing.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• In the UK, 134,000 people aged 16 to 25 are homeless or at risk.
• There are 150,000 rough sleepers.
• Homeless people need somewhere secure to live, it does not have to be big.
• The fact that these homes are genuinely temporary means they can be compact.
• Compact homes can be built and connected to utilities for £100,000 and projects can be delivered in a year.
• Cardiff already has enough two-storey modular homes to house 300 families.
• Lewis shares several other examples across the UK.
• Travelodge´s are expensive, so modular homes don´t take long to pay for
  themselves.
  

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BEST MOMENTS
“I´ve got a passion for affordable housing.”
“I’m a fan of modern methods of construction.”
“If we’re going to get people out of hotel rooms, if we’re going to get people off the streets, compact is the way we’ve got to go.”
“It´s a very happy community on what was a car park.”

EPISODE RESOURCES
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-herbert-84378110

Allia Future Homes - https://futurebusinesscentre.co.uk/our-impact/future-homes
Cardiff – https://businessnewswales.com/residents-welcome-temporary-homes-in-modular-
housing-scheme/
Motels to homes - https://chesshomeless.org
https://www.zedpods.com
https://www.social-bite.co.uk
https://www.fusearchitects.co.uk

ABOUT THE HOST
Paul Higgs is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor with 40+ years' experience in land, planning and development and a 100% success track record in winning planning consents.Paul undertook his first refurb project when he was just 17 and then worked his way up from labouring on building sites to becoming Head of Land for renowned plc housebuilder, Barratt Developments. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2002 to set up what is now a multimillion-pound award-winning property development company, Millbank Group.
In 2013 Paul founded the Millbank Land Academy, the UK’s first training company dedicated to property development; to teach established and aspiring developers the insider secrets the big housebuilders don’t want you to know!
Paul is also a founding investor and former board director of the industry-leading PropTech Co, LandTech, and has lectured on Advanced Development Valuations on the MSc Property Development at London South Bank University.

CONTACT METHOD
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-higgs
Millbank Land Academy: https://www.millbanklandacademy.co.uk
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paulhiggsofficial
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@InsidePropertyDevelopment

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In this episode, Paul is joined by Leanne Tritton, the founder, former MD and EOT Trustee of ING Media, a team of strategic communications specialists for the built world. They think differently and invest energy and creativity into transforming the way people see buildings, cities and infrastructure.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The building sector is very tribal, very siloed, which is counterproductive.
• The smartest operators understand getting a project over the line takes many hands and are able to engage with all the groups involved.
• When things go wrong, the natural thing is to add a layer to stop it happening again, usually in the form of legislation.
• Now, we have so many layers the only ones who can break through it all and deliver a project has to have deep pockets.
• Property companies are becoming a bit anonymous and too technocratic.
  Shareholders interests are aligned with producing a great product.
• Margins are not so tight, that you can´t build quality homes.
• There are 600,000 unused buildings in the UK that are suitable for housing. If
  developed they bring homes into existing communities.

BEST MOMENTS
“Our sector is very tribal.”
“There´s not been a lot of understanding about how it all fits together.”
“We've pushed so many people out of the market because it's too hard.”
“Some people in positions of leadership in the built environment are too far removed from the end product.”

EPISODE RESOURCES

https://www.dontwastebuildings.com

https://2025.ukreiif.com/

Jon Stewart and Ezra Klein – Abundance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZxaFfxloo

ABOUT THE HOST
Paul Higgs is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor with 40+ years' experience in land, planning and development and a 100% success track record in winning planning consents.
Paul undertook his first refurb project when he was just 17 and then worked his way up from labouring on building sites to becoming Head of Land for renowned plc housebuilder, Barratt Developments. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2002 to set up what is now a multimillion-pound award-winning property development company, Millbank Group.
In 2013 Paul founded the Millbank Land Academy, the UK’s first training company dedicated to property development; to teach established and aspiring developers the insider secrets the big housebuilders don’t want you to know!
Paul is also a founding investor and former board director of the industry-leading PropTech Co, LandTech, and has lectured on Advanced Development Valuations on the MSc Property Development at London South Bank University.

CONTACT METHOD
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-higgs
Millbank Land Academy: https://www.millbanklandacademy.co.uk
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paulhiggsofficial
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@InsidePropertyDevelopment
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Today, Paul sits down with Alexa Culver, a lawyer who specialises in the field of
environmental development, planning and natural capital. She is legal counsel for RSK
Wilding - a DEFRA designated body under the Environment Act, which creates large scale nature restoration schemes that support developers to replace habitats.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The Planning and Infrastructure Bill Part III is flawed. Paul and Alexa discuss how
  things got so out of hand and the solution.
• Not having any evidential requirement for an EDP to come into effect is highly
  problematic.
• If there is no mitigation hierarchy the pace at which nature declines speeds up.
• A 28-day window of consultation for an EDP is ridiculously short.
• We know from past experience that the way forward is for all involved parties to work together e.g. Newts are protected, but the way it is done has been greatly
  streamlined.
• The very existence of the bill, even in its draft form, has created uncertainty that has slowed down development.

BEST MOMENTS
“It´s such a blunt instrument and it doesn’t work.”
“It can’t be an objective environmental watchdog while relying on levies from developers.”
“Here we will be accelerating the harm.”
“Our ecosystems and local people´s environment is being sacrificed protect the profits of overseas companies.”
“It´s the absolute killer of any attempt to try to make an offsetting scheme work.”
“There´s some really wide-reaching, consequential amendment clauses in the bill.”

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RESOURCES
Alexa´s post -https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7313892173786091520

ABOUT THE HOST

Paul Higgs is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor with 40+ years' experience in land, planning and development and a 100% success track record in winning planning consents.
Paul undertook his first refurb project when he was just 17 and then worked his way up from labouring on building sites to becoming Head of Land for renowned plc housebuilder, Barratt Developments. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2002 to set up what is now a multimillion-pound award-winning property development company, Millbank Group.
In 2013 Paul founded the Millbank Land Academy, the UK’s first training company dedicated to property development; to teach established and aspiring developers the insider secrets the big housebuilders don’t want you to know!
Paul is also a founding investor and former board director of the industry-leading PropTech Co, LandTech, and has lectured on Advanced Development Valuations on the MSc Property Development at London South Bank University.

CONTACT METHOD
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-higgs
Millbank Land Academy: https://www.millbanklandacademy.co.uk
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paulhiggsofficial
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@InsidePropertyDevelopment