Elaine Loughlin: One-off housing bans are stopping families from building communities

The generations of a family can offer invaluable mutual support, to the benefit of the entire community — but our efforts to prevent ribbon development may be driving them apart

IN the midst of a housing crisis, government policy is blocking people from building their own home, with their own money, on their own land.

Allowing one-off homes in rural areas may not solve the emergency, but it seems bonkers to stop development at a time when there are 62,000 people on the social housing waiting list.