Greens call for end to Right to Buy which has ‘hollowed out’ council housing stock 5 August 2025 by Green Party Responding to a report by the Common Wealth thinktank which says that the sale of millions of council homes to tenants at steep discounts since 1980 has fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality, Green MP Ellie Chowns said: “This report lays bare the devastation Right to Buy has wrought on communities up […] Read more » Ellie Chowns social housing
New planning framework “panders” to profit driven private housing developers say Greens 12 December 2024 / 12 December 2024 by Green Party Responding to the “planning overhaul” announced today by government, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay, said: “This new planning framework from Government fails to tackle the housing crisis head on and instead panders yet further to the interests of private developers whose main interest is lining their pockets. By pitting what’s happening as a binary battle […] Read more » Adrian Ramsay Green Party Housing NPPF social housing