Tories scrap house building targets, 'must protect greenbelt and do what locals want'

Turnbull2000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10198180.stm

Say goodbye to housebuilding of any meaning full degree for at least the next five years. Following the concessions on CGT, looks like older homeowners have won again.

amcluesent

There's nothing wrong with hi-density blocks on disused industrial land to house the sheeple!

dealsearcher

Turnbull2000 wrote: »

Following the concessions on CGT,

What concessions on CGT? I thought we'd find out the CGT rules in the budget on 22 June? You're not believing some newspaper article are you?

Degenerate

amcluesent wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with hi-density blocks on disused industrial land to house the sheeple!

This is in Madrid, Spain and was completed in 2009. It just demonstrates how ridiculously distorted their property market was that they were building stuff like this to house their people, at the same time they were building (ghost) towns of luxury apartments for foreigners.

PhylPho

Thank Gawd it's not in this country then. English Heritage would want it as a Listed Building by now.

Running_Horse

That might look OK in a city with some cladding and planting on the embankments.

Bet it has bigger rooms than most the ugly boxes being built in the English countryside.

Degenerate

Running_Horse wrote: »

Bet it has bigger rooms than most the ugly boxes being built in the English countryside.

I'm sure it does. In fact it meets it's design brief perfectly, in terms of the number of apartments, standard of accommodation and cost of construction. It has gained international recognition on these grounds.

The fact that people would have to look at the thing just wasn't one of the considerations.

lynzpower

I dont see that there is any problem with restricting government ordering local departments to build on green belt.
After all if the people dont want it - and its my view that the population doesnt really want it. Yes there might be a handful of potential homeowners that want a barratt box on green belt, but sorry some things are more important than what a potential "homeowner" might "want"

Jowo_2

I read an article today which said that the provision of family sized housing (as opposed to 1 and 2 bed flats which make up around 70+ percent of new builds) is particularly acute in London. They claimed that only 155 family sized houses were being built in Inner London over the next year, around 100 of which would be for affordable housing and the rest on the open market.

Fang_3

Country villages should be protected. It's hard enough finding a decent place to live without councils inviting anyone to move in.

CLAPTON

yes we need a zero build policy; and of course devolving planning powers power to 'local communities ' will probably achieve this

no new housing, no new railways, no new runways, no new power stations, no new gas pipelines, no new water works, no new pylons, no new mobile masts, no new factories, no new offices, no new Unis, no new shops.....