Panorama tonight: The Great House Price Bubble?

cells

France builds more than 350.000 hes a uear the Uk less than 150.000

Nothing more need be said about the issue.

If you want good sozed homes at reasonable prices we need to up build rate to French levels.

Alternatively prices will go up lots to ration supply

ILW

How do teh french manage to build 3 or 4 times as many houses pa as the British?

They don't seem to be concreting over all their farmland and villages.

MFW_ASAP

I wonder if Adam Shaw will venture out of the South East for his report?

cells

ILW wrote: »

How do teh french manage to build 3 or 4 times as many houses pa as the British?

They don't seem to be concreting over all their farmland and villages.

Two big reasons

Development land is a lot cheaper because uk policy makes development land a lot more expensive (before the stupid chime in with...france is larger...well fekin Scotland is larger still on a per capita basis yet the French build 3-4x as mucj as the Scottish too)

Extra taxes are placed on uk builders which makes building less desirable



Also concreting over all farmland is a red herring. Inner London is about 0.13% of the area of the UK and houses 3.25 million. If another 0.13% of the land is dedicated to housing you could build the homes and other infrastructure for 3.25 million people (probably closer to 4 million as there is a lot of things in inner London whoch don't need to be duplicated)

So for each 4 million more people you only need dedicate about 0.13% of the land.

michaels

posh*spice wrote: »

That is seriously yuk and frankly just dumb - life is way too short for sharing bath water. I feel sick just at the thought of it...

So you don't have similar age kids that you bathe in the same water / when you were a child you never shared the bath water with a similarly aged sibling? May be you only bathed once a week so there was less environmental consequence of each using their own 300l of water?

ILW

michaels wrote: »

So you don't have similar age kids that you bathe in the same water / when you were a child you never shared the bath water with a similarly aged sibling? May be you only bathed once a week so there was less environmental consequence of each using their own 300l of water?

Water supply is not an environmental issue in the UK.

CLAPTON

ILW wrote: »

Water supply is not an environmental issue in the UK.

creation of clean water delivered to your tap requires a considerable amount of electricity

Graham_Devon

LOL.

Interesting to see people make up their minds on the programme before they have even watched it!

It will likely have extremes in it, yes. But hopefully there will be some middle, more common, ground which is can create an evaluation on.

I'll try and catch it!

ILW

CLAPTON wrote: »

creation of clean water delivered to your tap requires a considerable amount of electricity

Compared to heating, it is a tiny proportion.

Road_Hog

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Gordon Brown completely eliminated Boom and bankrupted the economy. So your point is invalid.

Sorted your quote out for you.