Why don't people allow necessary houses to be build?

lincroft1710

In the small market town I grew up in, my parents' first house was 3 away from a large allotment beyond which was fields for miles . There were also fields behind them. They had a large garden at the side of the house and next to that was an orchard and hen run and next to that smaller allotments (there were only 4 houses on their side of the street).

That was in the 1950s. Fast forward to 2015 and there are 6 houses before you get to what was theirs (2 are in their former garden) and beyond their house you now have to walk for a mile before you come to countryside, it's houses, houses all the way.

As for brownfield sites - both railway station yards, a plastics factory, a woollen mill, a sawmill, 3 agricultural machinery depots, a brickworks, a printing works, a laundry 2 dairies, a seed warehouse, another warehouse, a steel stockholders, a maltings, 7 garages/showrooms, 4 schools, a supermarket, 4 pubs plus several large houses, 2 plant nurseries, riding stables, a bowling green, tennis courts and more allotments have all been developed for housing since the 1970s, and that list is not exhaustive.