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Self build and the anger of the NIMBYs
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self builder friends?
yes I'm sympathetic to the principle of self build but frankly it isn't likely to resolve the UK housing shortage.
There really isn't a shortage of the ability to actually build a house; the shortage is the land with planning permission in the right locations.0 -
yes I'm sympathetic to the principle of self build but frankly it isn't likely to resolve the UK housing shortage.
There really isn't a shortage of the ability to actually build a house; the shortage is the land with planning permission in the right locations.
No problems with finance either at public or private levels?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
From this post one would never guess that the great majority of our greatly expanded population, have a vastly better standard of housing now than prewar.
I have a feeling we will look back and see the 1930s as the high point of domestic housing for the ordinary working man, certainly in the Metropolitan area.
It was the time that families had learned to limit their size and while rooms were frequently larger than the Victorian 12' x 12's.
The price was a few hundred pounds probably the same as 50 years earlier.
Even the hewers of wood and drawers of water of water had a chance to buy a plot for a month or three's wages. and have a go themselves.
I would rather live in the above than in the one on the left built 40 years later or the one on the right planned for 80 - 100 years later.
Meanwhile who is going to rehouse these 6,000 households:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-21050507
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Talk about tinted glasses0
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It would seem to me that there is little stopping self build or indeed mobile homes except the shortage of land with planning permission
It is much more technical now. You have to use expert persons for many tasks and the finished item has to meet calculation provided by engineers. The traditional rules of thumb are no longer acceptable. So real self build is now illegal.0
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