Street votes: an enacted densification tool with no commencement regulations

Street vote development orders were legislated in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 and consulted on in December 2023, but the secondary legislation to switch them on has never been laid and no pilots exist. YIMBY Alliance and London YIMBY designed the mechanism; the Centre for British Progress's 2026 briefing calls it 'the next big lever', estimating ~30,000 homes a year in high-demand areas via incremental suburban intensification.

This is the rare housing lever that is already law, aligns residents' incentives with building (owners vote themselves uplift), needs no new primary legislation, and adds supply precisely where agglomeration returns are highest. It sits unused solely for want of statutory instruments and pilot funding.

Commencement regulations plus Planning Inspectorate procedures, and a funded pilot programme in three high-demand cities with template street plans and design codes, all deliverable within 18 months.

// State-led: Instrument: commencement regulations under Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 plus Planning Inspectorate procedures.

Already law and self-aligning owners' incentives, it needs only commencement regulations and pilot funding; moderate supply impact and no dated trigger keep pressure below acute.