Nick Clegg: pay residents to accept new Garden Cities

mayonnaise

Not sure if this has been posted already, apologies if duplicate.

Nick Clegg: pay residents to accept new Garden Cities
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/liberaldemocrats/11008331/Nick-Clegg-pay-residents-to-accept-new-Garden-Cities.html

Home-owners will be offered council tax discounts and house price guarantees to encourage them to accept a new Garden City development in their area, under plans being drawn up by ministers.

A laudable idea, but I think the government should go much further.
A 'council tax discount' and 'house price guarantees' sound very vague - probably intentionally.
I'd say a full council tax exemption and an iron cast government guarantee to purchase any affected property at a level well above market value, plus compensation for incurred relocation costs should go some way. Or maybe set up a variation on the HTB scheme, helping homeowners who suffered blight? Your thoughts?

Conrad

More people, more roads, more building, more intensive farming, less wildlife, more consumption, more congestion, more demand, on and on we go, what's not to like, hurrah for ever rising population.


Years ago I was on about the downside of mass immigration and now even Clegg is at last getting with the programme.


Ever rising population leads us to where in the end? One massive pyramid scheme.

IronWolf

Absolutely moronic idea. Does this guy have nothing better to do than think of ways to spend/waste our money?

If your house falls in value because of building nearby, its tough isn't it. Why stop at garden cities, why not guarantee to buy everyone's house in the country?

the_flying_pig

it sounds beyond mental.

since when did a house purchase include a promise that there'd be no building within [say] a 50 mile radius???

CLAPTON

poor old Nick is at a bit of a loose end

nothing really to do until the LibDems get massacred at the election and then Nick can flee to Europe for some high paying, 'highly respected' non job

michaels

IronWolf wrote: »

Absolutely moronic idea. Does this guy have nothing better to do than think of ways to spend/waste our money?

If your house falls in value because of building nearby, its tough isn't it. Why stop at garden cities, why not guarantee to buy everyone's house in the country?

Sounds reasonable to me - if 'infracstructure of national importance' blights your home - liek HS", you get compensated - why not the same for new housing, you may have bought on the basis of existing planning law and if suddenly a garden village is proposed that might affect the value of your house then you should be compensated.

Plus anything that gets some of the missing houses built gets my vote.

CLAPTON

The proposal is for 3 cities of 15,000 properties each
so that's 45,000 over let's say 5-10 years?


total nonsense and doesn't address the shortage of more than a million homes

Graham_Devon

michaels wrote: »

Sounds reasonable to me - if 'infracstructure of national importance' blights your home - liek HS", you get compensated - why not the same for new housing, you may have bought on the basis of existing planning law and if suddenly a garden village is proposed that might affect the value of your house then you should be compensated.

Plus anything that gets some of the missing houses built gets my vote.

We shouldn't need to be paid in order to accept the development and future proof of this country. We should welcome it really. Just shows how selfish we truly are if we need backhanders in order to accept moving forward for future generations.

michaels

Graham_Devon wrote: »

We shouldn't need to be paid in order to accept the development and future proof of this country. We should welcome it really. Just shows how selfish we truly are if we need backhanders in order to accept moving forward for future generations.

Completely disagree - if they decide to put a motorway or railway through house you should be paid full market value as compensation.

the_flying_pig

michaels wrote: »

Completely disagree - if they decide to put a motorway or railway through house you should be paid full market value as compensation.

literally through your house or garden of course, or maybe right next to it, yes. but a mile away? two miles? five? forget it.

Graham_Devon

michaels wrote: »

Completely disagree - if they decide to put a motorway or railway through house you should be paid full market value as compensation.

Indeed.

But were not talking about anyone knocking down your house to build others in this thread.

Compensation, which this thread is discussing, is very different to a mandatory purchase which would happen in your scenario.

Building a flyover right over your house is deserving of compensation, it affects your everyday life once it's built. But a garden city some miles away?