Home Truths: Fixing Cheshire and Warrington’s housing crisis

In Cheshire and Warrington, the average home now costs eight times the average salary – three times what it would if prices had simply tracked inflation since 1970 – leaving a generation locked out of the aspiration their parents took for granted. In this one-on-one conversation, Ben Fletcher, Conservative candidate for Mayor of Cheshire and Warrington, joins Onward Director Simon Clarke to set out his plan to build 50,000 new homes, revive declining towns like Crewe, Warrington and Ellesmere Port through new Mayoral Development Corporations, restore public confidence in a planning system that too often delivers the wrong homes in the wrong places, and put beauty and design back at the heart of British housebuilding.