Tory manifesto proposes measures to boost house prices

Turnbull2000

I warned we were in for this on HPC last year. Didn't go down well!

http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Housing.aspx

• Strengthen shared ownership schemes which allow those on low-to-middle incomes to own or part-own their home.
• We will offer tenants with a record of five years’ good behaviour a 10 per cent equity share in their social rented property, which can be cashed in when they want to move up the housing ladder
• Abolish the unelected, bureaucratic tier of regional planning and return power to local communities and their elected councillors to protect their Green Belt and determine the right level of development

I'm not sure which one is the worst. Though giving social tenants a free deposit worth 10% of their property whilst other people have to work their !!!! off to save it up is particularly galling. We're talking five figures handouts here. W*nkers, the lot of them.

Malcolm.

Abolish the unelected, bureaucratic tier of regional planning and return power to local communities and their elected councillors to protect their Green Belt and determine the right level of development

I like this pledge, it makes sense.

The tories appear to be pro local accountability.

wymondham

I don't understand why they (and labour) feel the need to assist people to buy their home?

House purchase is free market driven. If you can't afford it, rent. Nobody should receive subsidies so they can purchase a house ... crazy..

chucky

the tories are meant to be the peoples party right... no i didn't think so

they just are posh mates looking after themselves

carolt

Loopy.

Good thing I had absolutely no intention of voting Tory ever, anyway.

CLAPTON

Malcolm. wrote: »

Abolish the unelected, bureaucratic tier of regional planning and return power to local communities and their elected councillors to protect their Green Belt and determine the right level of development

I like this pledge, it makes sense.

The tories appear to be pro local accountability.

It will be very interesting to see what happens
in many cases real local accountability will mean the end to new railways, airports, new hospitals, new factories, new retail outlets, new offices, new housing in large parts of the country... maybe a very good thing

dave4545454

chucky wrote: »

the tories are meant to be the peoples party right... no i didn't think so

they just are posh mates looking after themselves

"posh mates looking after themselves" sounds just like new labour

lostinrates

Points one and two I disagree with, on the other hand, while I think that a 10% equity share is problematic, people behaving how they should in state housing seems pretty iportant we're talking all the time about bad behavior, poor social responsibility. Perhaps this is a carrot in a carrot and stick approach? Ithink the five years is too simplistic..make a neighbours life miserable then ''reform'' and it should be longer, perhaps an additional term for any antisocial behavour order applied or something.


3. Well, potentially good for me. I can see even more NIMBY-ism as a potential problem though.

Rochdale_Pioneers

Ah yes, Tory localism. Perhaps instead of Cameron saying that he'd ban councils from doing things he dislikes, he could simply abolish the council like in the 80s.

Localism makes me laugh anyway. Lets devolve more things to "local" decision-makers. Then we have have the entire grasping middle clash bemoaning how unfair it is that people in town X can have things not offered to people in town Y. Either people want universal provision of things like weekly bin collection or cancer drugs, or they want local choice which logically means that different places get different things.

Of course in reality the selfish people who call themselves middle class what what they want to be paid for by everyone, and don't want to pay for things for other people. The Tories might sound appealing to them in outline, but you can never make them happy because when the key driver is envy there is always someone else who has got something you don't.

Graham_Devon

The giving of 10% of the equity is particularly annoying.

I doubt it will ever see the light of day. Or at least I hope.

Oooo, actually, I might qualify, damn brilliant idea....or is this only for those being housed by others taxes?

markharding557

This sort of stuff is where they are loosing the plot,the last thing this country needs is policies which would drive house prices even higher.
They should be looking at providing poorer working folks with places to rent instead of giving council houses to drug addicts and criminals