Shelter policy head joins Number 10 as housing adviser

Shelter's former head of policy Toby Lloyd has joined Number 10 as a housing adviser, bolstering Theresa May's efforts to get to grips with the crisis.

Lloyd, who co-authored Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing, ​is likely to shake things up when he joins Downing Street as first reported by Estates Gazette.

He has previously called for a wholesale reform of planning laws, saying "neither fetishising nor scrapping the green belt is credible".

Instead Lloyd suggested authorities be granted powers to review green belts and identify areas for housing, "while protecting green belt areas with the highest environmental value and improving public access to them by creating country parks".

His appointment was welcomed, including Tory MP Nick Boles, who said: "This is the best possible news. Nobody understands the roots of the housing crisis better – or has a better idea of what we need to do to fix it."

Boles has championed a similar approach in his Square Deal for Housing blue print.

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