ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the way in which housing need could be related to land use planning. It focuses on the proposal and begins with a discussion of the long-standing ‘tenure-blindness’ in the government attitude towards housing tenure and land use. The chapter suggests that ways in which housing need could be better related to new housing allocations. Prior to 1974, the functions of local authorities were defined under separate statutes, so they were in fact only a collection of statutory functions. The human factor is always present, of course, indirectly as the background to the consideration of the character of land use. A system such as is proposed would be extremely difficult to monitor if each council is at a different phase in a lengthy plan-production process. The Department of the Environment is forced to disobey its own injunction when it wants to identify particular sub-tenures within affordable housing, and so breaks its own rule by making distinctions of tenure.
