The silver bullet to fix the housing market

cells

CLAPTON wrote: »

what sort of plan then?

Lots of different methods and routes you can use to increase the build rate towards the 400k a year needed.

I would simply have the council local plans reflect actual demand.

Currently the council randomly picks a number out their !!!!!. Eg we beed 7,000 homes over the next 20 years and triea to allocate land such that it gradually meeta that number. The problem is always that !!!! number is too low and seldom do they even meet that


Instead they should have a formula. Population growth ia currently running at 0.7% a year. Occupancy rates need to fall by 0.1 over the decade.
so a council with 100k homes and 235k people would need to build 11,750 homes

cells

ukcarper wrote: »

I would imagine more is giving over to equestrian use and the same could be said about that. Plenty of land about I'm just saying if we are going to build on green fields careful consideration should be given to which ones are used, as there will be a big outcry and it will have to be forced though.

How do you think it is done now?

The local planning department put up a map of their area and drink a bottle of voda and throw a few dozen darts and where it lands is developed?

ukcarper

cells wrote: »

How do you think it is done now?

The local planning department put up a map of their area and drink a bottle of voda and throw a few dozen darts and where it lands is developed?

As you said earlier a number is dictated by government and they try to identify what land to use I don't no what criteria they use but it's not very good and then as you say they fail to meet it. Some of the land allocated in my local plan is suitable but more suitable land is ignored.

CLAPTON

cells wrote: »

Lots of different methods and routes you can use to increase the build rate towards the 400k a year needed.

I would simply have the council local plans reflect actual demand.

Currently the council randomly picks a number out their !!!!!. Eg we beed 7,000 homes over the next 20 years and triea to allocate land such that it gradually meeta that number. The problem is always that !!!! number is too low and seldom do they even meet that


Instead they should have a formula. Population growth ia currently running at 0.7% a year. Occupancy rates need to fall by 0.1 over the decade.
so a council with 100k homes and 235k people would need to build 11,750 homes

not really sure that's what I would call a 'strategic ' plan but never mind.

in general, the role of councils isn't to meet building targets as they don't actually build houses.

their role should be to allocate building permission on a lot of land

JohnJLewis

I hear changes to commercial buildings if they are empty for years can be made into flats.

Its good because the internet is killing the shops so why not turn them all into flats while prices are still high?