Houses or greenbelt?

IveSeenTheLight

macaque wrote: »

The answer to this can be found here:


There is a 2% difference but I believe the home ownership %age has fallen slightly since 2011.


http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/detailed-characteristics-on-housing-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/short-story-on-detailed-characteristics.html

Ok, so what do you deduce from this?

In terms of the government and their plans for the legislation, think about what the voting electorate would like to see.

Think about what this means for the future development / price of housing.

DominicJ_2

People mistake "green belt" for "countryside" or "landscape".
The greenbelt was declared with a protractor. Not with any rational comparison of its value to society. Its an utterly meaningless thing that only the truely ignorant could care about.

moneyistooshorttomention

...and even building on "empty" sites in city (those brownfield sites I guess?) has its problems. As many cities are (well...were) in possession of enough "green space" within them to be liveable in and then they started developing there.....:(

I have recently moved from a city like that, partly because I couldn't handle all my "green spaces" being grabbed and built on....(yep they were MY...not a typo...as I was a "local" and we knew those green spaces were "ours").

By the time you've had garden-grabbing, developers grabbing all those "spaces" and a city/town/whatever building outwards into the countryside you're stymied for keeping "your" type of environment you have been used whichever way you look at it and there IS only one answer = fewer people needing homes and that would take off this pressure.

CLAPTON

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

...and even building on "empty" sites in city (those brownfield sites I guess?) has its problems. As many cities are (well...were) in possession of enough "green space" within them to be liveable in and then they started developing there.....:(

I have recently moved from a city like that, partly because I couldn't handle all my "green spaces" being grabbed and built on....(yep they were MY...not a typo...as I was a "local" and we knew those green spaces were "ours").

By the time you've had garden-grabbing, developers grabbing all those "spaces" and a city/town/whatever building outwards into the countryside you're stymied for keeping "your" type of environment you have been used whichever way you look at it and there IS only one answer = fewer people needing homes and that would take off this pressure.

which city is that ?