Movements · uk_planning_restriction_regime UK planning-restriction regime persistence GBR · 1990 – present· Cross-party consensus (Conservative, Labour, LibDem) across successive governments
Doctrine — stated goals and content Town and Country Planning Act 1947 established local-authority discretion over development and set the foundation for greenbelt protection. Every subsequent government has retained the framework and added to it. Cumulative effect: sustained supply restriction in high-productivity southeast housing markets, producing the most severe housing-affordability gap among OECD advanced economies and — by extension — suppressed labour mobility, household savings going to housing rather than productive capital, and a regressive wealth-transfer from young renters to older homeowners. The framework codes this as a movement because the policy- content (restrictive land use) is continuous across political coalitions.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes ↑
sectoral licensing → regulatory.sectoral_licensing
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
increased · strong
tighter sectoral licensing / more state gating
Extreme regulatory friction on residential and commercial development, compounding over decades.
↓
product market competition → regulatory.product_market_competition
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
decreased · strong
more restrictive regulation, higher entry barriers
Housing supply restriction weakens labour-market mobility and distorts capital allocation toward land rents.
Policies enacted · uk_greenbelt_protection_sustained · uk_local_authority_planning_discretion · uk_nimby_public_inquiry_regime What the data says — linked outcome hypotheses The movement's outcome claims are tied to these hypotheses. Verdicts update as models run.
Schools of thought aligned or opposed aligned democratic_socialist derived: score=+0.97, overlap=2 axes vs democratic_socialist profile (mechanical backfill v1)
opposed developmentalism derived: score=-0.66, overlap=2 axes vs developmentalism profile (mechanical backfill v1)
aligned eco_socialist derived: score=+0.98, overlap=2 axes vs ecological profile (mechanical backfill v1)
aligned institutionalism derived: score=+0.74, overlap=2 axes vs institutionalism profile (mechanical backfill v1)
aligned marxian derived: score=+0.57, overlap=2 axes vs marxian profile (mechanical backfill v1)
aligned post_keynesian derived: score=+1.00, overlap=2 axes vs post_keynesian profile (mechanical backfill v1)
partial new_keynesian derived: score=-0.29, overlap=2 axes vs new_keynesian profile (mechanical backfill v1)
partial ordoliberal derived: score=-0.38, overlap=2 axes vs ordoliberal profile (mechanical backfill v1)
opposed empirical_pragmatist derived: score=-0.74, overlap=2 axes vs empirical_pragmatist profile (mechanical backfill v1)
opposed austrian derived: score=-0.97, overlap=2 axes vs austrian profile (mechanical backfill v1)
opposed chicago_monetarism derived: score=-0.77, overlap=2 axes vs chicago_monetarism profile (mechanical backfill v1)
opposed classical_liberal derived: score=-0.82, overlap=2 axes vs classical_liberal profile (mechanical backfill v1)
opposed market_socialist derived: score=-0.96, overlap=2 axes vs market_socialist profile (mechanical backfill v1)
opposed social_democratic derived: score=-0.71, overlap=2 axes vs social_democratic profile (mechanical backfill v1)
References Town and Country Planning Act 1947 Hilber and Vermeulen (2016), 'The Impact of Supply Constraints on House Prices in England' Cheshire-Hilber-Koster line of research (LSE) IESET — an empirically-grounded, adversarially-reviewed framework for contemporary economic policy questions. Every hypothesis pre-registered in git before the data is examined.