Up to the mark

2010-12-10T00:00:00

In the scramble to cut cost and red tape, housing minister Grant Shapps may be missing the value of housing standards. Get them right and they don’t automatically push up costs, reduce choice or curtail supply; they provide benchmarks that allow us to compare housing quality

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