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Author Tichelar, Michael

Title The Failure of Land Reform in Twentieth Century England : the Triumph of Private Property
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (243 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The scope and outline of the book; Part I The historical setting; 1 The English land question in historical perspective; Changing meanings of landed property during the twentieth century; Historical interpretations of land reform in twentieth-century England; New interpretations of land reform in the twenty-first century; Summary; 2 Land reform movements before 1914; Political responses to the development of a private market in land; The origins of the concept of the 'unearned increment'
The influence of working-class agrarianismAnarchist and socialist influences on land reform; Edwardian climax; Summary; Part II The land question and taxation of land values, 1914 to 1939; 3 The impact of the First World War and the spread of owner-occupation; The impact of the First World War; Post-war changes in rural development and landownership; The spread of owner-occupation in urban areas; The growing influence of town and country planning; Summary; 4 The rise of town planning and the demise of site value rating; Land law reform; From smallholdings to agricultural protection
From taxation of land values to land nationalisationGrowing support for town and country planning; Summary; Part III The political conflict over landed property rights, 1942 to 1979; 5 The impact of the war on town and country; The Blitz and the demand for land-use control in urban areas; Popular attitudes to town and country planning; The coalition response to property speculation; Impact of the war on agriculture and the countryside; Summary; 6 Tensions in the wartime coalition government; The conflict over property rights in urban areas; The political response to the Scott Report
The Labour Party's retreat from land nationalisationSummary; 7 The post-war settlement; Agriculture and smallholdings; New towns; National parks; Town and country planning and the nationalisation of development rights; The Conservatives and the return of a free market in land; The political response to the property boom; Summary; 8 Continuing battles over compensation and betterment; Changes in the post-war consensus on agriculture, planning and new towns; Labour's Land Commission and capital gains tax, 1964-1970; The Conservatives and the land development tax, 1970-1974
The Community Land Act and the Development Land Tax, 1976. Summary; Part IV The land question and the housing crisis, 1979 to 2017; 9 The triumph of private property and future options for land reform; Changes in landownership during the second half of the twentieth century; Land reform and the Conservatives, 1979 to 1997; Land reform and Labour, 1997 to 2010; Land policies since 2010 and options for reform; Summary; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary sources; Manuscript collections; Secondary sources; Official papers and other reports (in chronological order)
Summary Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England during the twentieth century to regulate, tax, and control the market in land for the common or public good. It is maintained that this created the circumstances in which private property relationships had triumphed by the end of the century. Explaining a complex field of legislation and policy in accessible terms, the book concludes by asking what type of land reform might be relevant in the twenty-first century to address the current housing crisis, which seen in its widest context, has become the new land question of the modern era
Notes Contemporary books, articles and pamphlets
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Land reform-England-History-20th century
Land tenure-England-History-20th century
Land use-England-History-20th century
Land reform -- England -- History -- 20th century
Land use -- England -- History -- 20th century
Land tenure -- England -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Land reform
Land tenure
Land use
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018009402
ISBN 9781351811736
1351811738
9781351811743
1351811746
9781351811729
135181172X
9781315211121
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