Michael Gove’s dream of multistorey loft conversions won’t solve the housing crisis

The housing secretary has visions of turning British towns into visions of Paris – but his plan is a classic example of back-to-front thinking, writes Tom Peck

Thirteen years in to a government feels a tiny bit late for your big plan on housing (PA Wire)

When Michael Gove was appointed secretary of state for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” the mindless mumbo jumbo of his job title would not have been lost on him. A year on, he appears to have come up with a solution, which is to take the whole thing entirely literally.

He has now, with a year to go before any general election, released his big plan for housing, and it is to build communities by levelling up. Yes, that’s really it.

His speech on Monday morning on the subject was less an actual plan, more an essay, but by now such things are to be expected.