They're learning.....

andykn

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I think its fairly clear the Tories have no more intention of supplying affordable housing than Labour did.

Considerably less, actually. They've scrapped New Labour plans for affordable housing. In it's last year New Labour's Housing Corporation subsidised 50,000 social homes.

lewisa

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

I think you will find a vast number of projects are simply on hold indefinitely because the developers know they will not be making any money off them........

Thats only true for developments like this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Tower

DaddyBear

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

KPMG analyst on BBC news just now.

Construction starts drop 14%, residential housing construction starts predicted to be at an all time record low over the next year with funding cut off for Local Authorities and changes to planning (Nimby Charter).

Supply to dry up sooner rather than later....

And we all know what the result was last time that happened.

They may be learning, but sadly it appears that you are not.
I love the smell of desperation on a Friday.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

lewisa wrote: »

Thats only true for developments like this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Tower

I am sure its true for many developers doing anything more than one offs...;)

JonnyBravo

abaxas wrote: »

For one I'm looking forward to this 'nimby charter'.

Find yourself a village with 100 people living there. Buy house, convert to HMO. Get 300 people to technically live there.

Planning issues are now resolved due to democracy. Build what you like.

Yeah, what can go wrong?

:rotfl:

abaxas

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Yeah, what can go wrong?

:rotfl:

It works in business! So time to bring the term 'hostile takeover' to a whole new level.

Really2

andykn wrote: »

Considerably less, actually. They've scrapped New Labour plans for affordable housing. In it's last year New Labour's Housing Corporation subsidised 50,000 social homes.

Was that because the money was never there?
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/development/pm-claims-labour-housing-plans-were-not-funded/6510199.article

Is that the housing corporation that closed in 2008?
http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk/

the_flying_pig

I think most people would agree with H that supply is increasing only slowly [although a six-figure number of new builds per year isn't that bad all things considered] and will continue to do so.

Where his views start to become a little bit, er, unusual* is where he starts to think that a hundred thousand penniless third & second world families being added to the UK per year [with aggregate housing benefit cuts set in stone] will somehow push 'demand' for pwoperdee up more than several hundred thousand of hitherto comfortably off UK families losing their main breadwinner through austerity measures, combined with the even more important likely trends in the availability and price of credit [and everything else including likely heavy blows to the speculative component of demand as 'confidence' ebbs away] will push it down.


* - being potentially characterisable as childishly simplistic, or hopelessly one-eyed, or desperate, or downright dishonest, depending on your view...

andykn

Really2 wrote: »

Was that because the money was never there?
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/development/pm-claims-labour-housing-plans-were-not-funded/6510199.article

Wasn't all Govt money to be used.

Is that the housing corporation that closed in 2008?
http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk/

It was replaced by another similar agency:

http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/

You should read your own links.

JonnyBravo

abaxas wrote: »

It works in business! So time to bring the term 'hostile takeover' to a whole new level.

Presumably these 300 people are going to be the type of idiots who don't have a job cos "it's a waste of time innit"?
What's going to happen to their housing benefit when they officially move in together?
Do you even know 300 people?

There are so many holes in this and your other twaddle I'll leave it there but thanks for the laugh.