Steve Reed
Former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United KingdomWikipedia
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Oct 14, 2026
Mark AdderleyGUEST
You know, that's reach.
Nadia SawalhaGUEST
So, so imagine that for little Steve Reed, our local Labour MP-
Hala HaninaHOST
[laughs]
Mark AdderleyGUEST
Mm
Fiona CollieGUEST
I mean, last year was all, uh, about build, baby, build.
Fiona CollieGUEST
Steve Reed, the, uh, former Secretary of State for Housing, going around with, uh, little red hats with slogans on.
Fiona CollieGUEST
But that was very focused on, you know, the one half million housing target, but that was very much all forms of housing.
Fiona CollieGUEST
And there was a distinct shift this year to a real focus on social housing, very specifically, and Andy Burnham said it himself, council housing as, as the solution.
Alex KingGUEST
Conversely, I kind of got the impression that the development sector was a little more downbeat this year than last year.
Alex KingGUEST
Perhaps because Burnham has defenestrated their man, Steve Reed, from the role of Housing Secretary.
John GaganHOST
That's interesting.
John GaganHOST
So there was a bit less of the build baby build rhetoric this year compared to last year, and l-less red caps.
John GaganHOST
Okay.
John GaganHOST
And how about the Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook, what were some of the headlines from his appearances and talks at the conference?
Alex KingGUEST
He seemed quite adamant that the government's big planning work was, quote unquote, "finished," specifically indicating that there won't be any more updates to the NPPF this parliament, and that there would be a shift in focus to things like leaseholder reform.
John GaganHOST
Okay, so tell us more about his comments on updates to the NPPF.
Ryan JonesHOST
Well, it, it's, it's crept up on me in that I wasn't aware of that.
Ryan JonesHOST
I was thinking, um, one of our, well, a couple of our stories this week come out of the, the Labour Conference, which we mentioned last week, and that put me in mind of one of our, it may have been our first episode together, Pete, co-hosting, or certainly one of, was, um, Steve Reed and his red cap and build baby build and all that sort of stuff.
Ryan JonesHOST
I thought, "Oh, that's [chuckles] ...
Ryan JonesHOST
It's, it's a year to the day.
Ryan JonesHOST
Uh, happy Steve Reed Day.
Peter SumptonHOST
Yeah.
Peter SumptonHOST
Yeah.
David RoseGUEST
Well, a- as you say, you know, politicians, uh, from all main parties have been banging on about this for at least a decade, this supposedly mortal threat to democracy and social cohesion.
David RoseGUEST
Um, in the summer of 2025, um, uh, ministers, I think it was Steve Reed, uh, admitted that they didn't really have an evidence base to justify appropriate action to deal with this apparently terrible problem.
David RoseGUEST
So the Government Office for Science commissioned a very hasty report which was carried out by a team based at Sheffield University, and they produced this report in May, which indeed says that, you know, this is, is an existential threat to democracy and social cohesion, and it cites evidence which apparently is compelling that, you know, this is really serious.
David RoseGUEST
It's really driving people towards extreme positions and so on.