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How's the Construction Sector Going..?
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If they finally build more houses then for once we could actually see a benefit to immigration as well. As we were discussing in another thread, all they have to do is bulldoze 10% of the horses and there would be room for everyone.0
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ruggedtoast wrote: ».......all they have to do is bulldoze 10% of the horses and there would be room for everyone.
Hamish will be amused by your over-simplification. My understanding was that bulldozers didn't enter into it. He simply opined the view that if they were given 10% less grazing land, then houses could be built on that......
A little bit simplistic, though. Firstly, "horse country" [like around here for example] is exactly where you find the greatest concentration of "Nimby's" per square mile. Secondly, most horse fields are quite small, although they adjoin others, with lots of different owners. You'd never get them to agree which 10% they'd lose and make these join up into a big enough parcel to build a small estate.
I can just see all the howls of protest to the planners. Backed up by RSPCA. The horse field has been scientifically 'sized' to produce just enough grass for X horses.... Cut it by 10% and they will slowly die, bit by bit, a horrible death.... Demonstrations in the street with Henrietta and Tarquin on their ponies... mothers crying their eyes out as well... placards saying "Epping Council is starving my pony..."... "Stop this mindless animal slaughter now....."
Wouldn't work.
So think again. I could perhaps recommend you save up and buy an old second hand horse box. Some of them are a bit like camper vans really. A little bit of woodwork inside and you'd not only have your own home, but one that could be easily moved to a new area to make you "mobile" should other job opportunities arise.
Win-win really.0 -
Loughton_Monkey wrote: »save up and buy an old second hand horse box. Some of them are a bit like camper vans really. A little bit of woodwork inside and you'd not only have your own home, but one that could be easily moved to a new area to make you "mobile" should other job opportunities arise..
Or alternatively, just bolt some wheels on a porch.
I hear they even race them in Essex....:)“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Or alternatively, just bolt some wheels on a porch.
I hear they even race them in Essex....:)
.... well Essex girls are getting harder to attract....0 -
Loughton_Monkey wrote: »Essex girls are getting harder to attract....
What?
Don't tell me it now takes two bottles of cheap sparkling wine instead of the previous one bottle.
Well, that's inflation for you.....:(“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »What?
Don't tell me it now takes two bottles of cheap sparkling wine instead of the previous one bottle.
Well, that's inflation for you.....:(
You're probably getting a bit confused. Maybe you've seen just one Essex girl and one bottle of cheap sparkling wine. They are identical in being empty from the neck up....0 -
Propaganda
Spin doctors
Construction might be up from its 100 year low that doesn't mean its back to pre recession levels nor the two - three times pre recession levels we need.
Once again. France builds 400k a year the uk builds 130k a year
All those on here patting each others backs you may see a modest rise next year from 130k to maybe aay 150k. Its not going to go from 130k this year to 400k next
The structural problem is the local plans. Councils set out a number far too low and don't even manage to hit them.
The recent 'developers jave won' are just mind tricks to convince those in power that enough has been done already when the fact remains. France 421k uk 130k new buolds in 2011 with a very similar outlook goig forward0 -
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