High house prices destroying...

the_flying_pig

Many apologies if already posted...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045371/Planning-reform-High-house-prices-destroying-family-life.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Idiophreak

You're going to have to change your sig if you're gonna post links to DM...

MacMickster

So it's now government policy to lower house prices?

Aberdeenangarse

Tell me about it. I'm, getting grief from the misses for buying an overpriced hovel at the peak of the market. It's no wonder Ting Tongs decided to play away.

Sibley, Maidstone, 5/10/2011 8:40

Graham_Devon

Idiophreak wrote: »

You're going to have to change your sig if you're gonna post links to DM...

It might be a DM link, but that does not detract from what the minister states.

Mr Clark said: ‘It’s destroying family life in so many ways. How can a family put down roots if they’re on six months’ notice to quit on a buy-to-let?


‘Young parents are having to spend more of their earnings on rent, and less on their children. Living in tiny flats and houses without the gardens they played in as children. Leading isolated lives, miles from where their children’s grandparents and other relatives are.’

ukcarper

Do people really think that this will lead to more houses being built in the villages where the wealthy Tory voters will fight tooth and nail to prevent it?

wotsthat

ukcarper wrote: »

Do people really think that this will lead to more houses being built in the villages where the wealthy Tory voters will fight tooth and nail to prevent it?

No, the NIMBY's will continue to ensure that houses aren't built in areas where people want to live.

Hideous rabbit hutch flats will be built in 'up and coming' areas though.

Thrugelmir

ukcarper wrote: »

Do people really think that this will lead to more houses being built in the villages where the wealthy Tory voters will fight tooth and nail to prevent it?

Little point anyway if there are no jobs and public transport is poor.

ukcarper

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Little point anyway if there are no jobs and public transport is poor.

But that is not always the case.

ruggedtoast

Excellent rhetoric until:

‘We’ll insist on excellent design not Lego-towns and we’ll make sure that planning decisions are taken by local people ,’ he added.

And this is where it all collapses. Because if local people elsewhere in the UK are like local people in any of the areas I have ever been local to, they will fight tooth and nail to stifle any proposed developments anywhere within a 30 mile radius of anywhere anyone wants to live.

We desperately need houses, everyone recognises that, but 99.9% of people will manacle themselves to the JCBs before they allow one to be built next door to their own one.

Local people unfortunately need central government overruling them for the good of everywhere else.

Batchy

high house prices are not a problem with low credit interest rates, however, it canbe a risky method to own.

However, high rents are the problem, as people / familys either rent or buy, and high house prices will be maintained if its currently cheaper to buy than it is to rent...

Deposit aside, the other dont get a choice... and are caught in the rental trap.