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Reflections on ‘land value recovery’ for UK rural areas, and its implications for housing affordability, wealth-building, rural land use, and community wellbeing

Gallent, Nick; Purves, Andrew; Gabrieli, Tommaso; (2024) Reflections on ‘land value recovery’ for UK rural areas, and its implications for housing affordability, wealth-building, rural land use, and community wellbeing. Habitat International , 153 , Article 103204. 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103204. Green open access

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Abstract

Unimproved land values are produced through the agglomeration of human activity and by public investments, in critical infrastructure, that happen over generations. Following enclosure, those values are captured as rent by private landowners. This paper explores the logic and justice of ‘land value recovery’ in rural areas, achieved through a transference of tax liability from wages and productivity to land. After introducing relevant aspects of the current tax system in the UK and detailing the challenges faced by rural areas, it offers reflections on how land value recovery might impact on key challenges, centered on housing, farming and wider land-use, before peering into the ‘Pandora's box’ of broader economic implications of recovering land values. The paper concludes on the benefits for rural areas of socializing the rents produced by broader socio-economic activity.

Type: Article
Title: Reflections on ‘land value recovery’ for UK rural areas, and its implications for housing affordability, wealth-building, rural land use, and community wellbeing
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103204
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103204
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198376
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