Labour and the Land: The Making of the Community Land Act, 1976

Autor:	Peter Weiler
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Economic growth Government Land law Legislation Development Nonpossessory interest in land Political economy Political Science and International Relations Economics Free market Land tenure Speculation Safety Research Land reform
Zdroj:	Contemporary British History. 27:389-420
ISSN:	1743-7997 1361-9462
DOI:	10.1080/13619462.2013.822797
Popis:	Angered by an unprecedented rise in house and land prices and by the depredations of property developers such as Harry Hyams, who built Centre Point, the Labour Party unanimously embraced land nationalization at the 1972 and 1973 conferences. In the event, the Labour government that came to power in 1974 did not nationalize the land, but it did pass the Community Land Act empowering local authorities to acquire at ‘use value’ land that could be used for development. This was the third and, as it turned out, last time since 1945 that the Labour Party enacted legislation to limit the free market in land and property. This article examines why Labour in spite of its previous failures tried again to secure a permanent change in land ownership and why this last attempt also failed because of a combination of external economic pressures and the inherent limitations of Labour's reform effort.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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