We need more homes and that’s a fact. We need volume, light and character. We need liberated rules. We need imagination to unlock forgotten small plots. Shouldn't we all be developers? This insider’s journey strips down the machinery of development to reveal the ageing parts in need of repair. Introducing the parties in charge of our housing crisis, we will discover how theirs is a model built not around increasing supply but one that seems only to restrict it. In identifying the gap sites scattered all over our cities as ripe for development, this book builds, brick by brick, the case for the independent developer. It is 'the book the volume housebuilders don’t want you to read'.