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Building on greenbelt
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going2die_rich wrote: »Doesn't the last 5 years of silly house prices not tell you that we needed them 5 years ago?
Not really, thats my point. Its too simplistic to say that building more houses will impact HPI.
Is there really a shortage of housing, or as we pointed out earlier, a shortage of housing people can afford to buy? For all the considered viewpoints on this thread no one has yet convinced me how building more houses is going to alleviate this....0 -
London needs new houses. Redraw London boundaries to the edge of the M25. Tell London it can conrcrete as many acres as it likes within its borders, but not one square inch beyond.
The government is bulldozing thousands of homes in the north. Transfer as many government departments out of the capital as possible.Been away for a while.0 -
Not really, thats my point. Its too simplistic to say that building more houses will impact HPI.
Is there really a shortage of housing, or as we pointed out earlier, a shortage of housing people can afford to buy? For all the considered viewpoints on this thread no one has yet convinced me how building more houses is going to alleviate this....
point is how are you going to build more houses people can afford
whats affordable??????0 -
Running_Horse wrote: »London needs new houses. Redraw London boundaries to the edge of the M25. Tell London it can conrcrete as many acres as it likes within its borders, but not one square inch beyond.
The government is bulldozing thousands of homes in the north. Transfer as many government departments out of the capital as possible.
Quite so, & whap bloody great tax rebates onto companies that relocate to the North"Mrs. Pench, you've won the car contest, would you like a triumph spitfire or 3000 in cash?" He smiled.
Mrs. Pench took the money. "What will you do with it all? Not that it's any of my business," he giggled.
"I think I'll become an alcoholic," said Betty.0 -
If we need to house 10% more people, we need 10% more cities, towns and villages with shops, post offices, garages, schools etc. Stealing gardens, school playing fields and any spare piece of land in our villages is not the answer.
GGThere are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.0 -
What a load of crap the whole must build more houses rubbish is. Builders will profit, noone else.
As said, there is no shortage of houses. There's just a shortgae of houses available for sale cheap at this current point of the cycle. If there's really a shortage, where's everyone living?
Rents haven't gone up in 5 years and there's empty buildings all over the plave.
Hopefully things will write themsleves naturally as everything unwinds and save us/countryside from 3m shoddy built, tiny, high density "luxorious" new builds.0 -
Remember that "60k" afforable house prescott was so proud off, that ended up for selling close to 300k.
The governmnet/greedy gordon are clueless. Greedy builders/the house industry is playing them for fools.0 -
Anyway, If the plan really did work and because of supply and demand affordable houses were created, wouldn't that mean that all the existing one would have had to come down to those new affordable levels too? It is a market afterall.
So, in effect, gordons masterplans delibrate aim is to crash the market by 200% or something by buildings millionhs of unneeded new homes. Sure that will be popular. Genious.
And lets face it, it's not like they can start building them any cheaper, or higher density than they already do at the minute.0 -
Remember. Whoever who vote for, the government always win. this lovely country of ours went to the dogs years ago, and gets worse every day. Rant over.0
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