Landvaluescape for Green Property Taxes

The subject for an informal talk at the next meeting of the PLRG will be Landvaluescape for Green Property Taxes. It will be given by Dr Tony Vickers, Hon Sec of PLRG, at the School of Economic Science, 11 Mandeville Place, London (off Oxford Street, Bond Street nearest LU station) on Thursday 1st July 2010 at 6pm-7pm. A short business meeting of PLRG will take place from 5.30, to which all are welcome: future PLRG activities will be discussed.

Dr Vickers will bring together the findings of his PhD thesis Visualising Landvaluescape: Developing the Concept for Britain (which can be viewed or downloaded in full here) and his inside knowledge of the Liberal Democrat Party's recent reaffirmation of its policy of Land Value Taxation. With Lib Dem advocates of LVT now in the Cabinet and a fixed five-year term for the Coalition Government, has the time now came for LVT?

As well as Lib Dems, the Green Party (1 MP) and the Cooperative Party (with 30 members elected under Lab/Coop banner) are now in a British Parliament, with LVT firmly part of their Manifestos. Whilst the Coalition Agreement makes no mention of LVT (and indeed Vince Cable's Mansion Tax was quickly shelved as the Agreement was being negotiated) today's FT no less calls for Council Tax to be replaced by LVT. The idea just won't go away!

Dr Vickers has had an abstract of a paper with this title accepted for the Green Economics Institute conference in Oxford 29-31 July. The PLRG meeting on 1st July is a chance to help frame that paper, which will be co-authored by Professor Sarah Sayce (Head of School of Surveying at Kingston University) and Professor Munir Morad (Head of Department of Urban, Environment & Leisure Studies, South Bank University), who were his PhD supervisors.

Please pass on this inviation to colleagues who may wish to attend. It would be helpful if Dr Vickers could be informed of the names of anyone wishing to attend, as SES may need to know. Phone him on 07950 202640 or email