New rural home ban ruled unlawful

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See here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6982756.stm

leftieM

It was a bit of a daft ruling in the first place. Hopefully the builders will pop houses up everywhere, saturate the market and initiate a drop in house prices to sensible levels. Bring it on!

dj9928

leftieM wrote: »

It was a bit of a daft ruling in the first place. Hopefully the builders will pop houses up everywhere, saturate the market and initiate a drop in house prices to sensible levels. Bring it on!

Exactly, thats why house prices have risen higher over here than anywhere else in the UK bar London

leftieM

dj9928 wrote: »

Exactly, thats why house prices have risen higher over here than anywhere else in the UK bar London

I don't think PPS14 did that by itself although it must have contributed to a rise in prices in the countryside. There was a huge pile in by investors trying to make a quick buck - a kind of pyramid selling scheme. It pushed up prices at the bottom because investors weren't thinking about the desireability of a house - they weren't going to be the ones living in it so the natural ceiling prices for houses were smashed and that fed through the system. People (myself included) panicked that if we didn't buy something now it would be forever out of reach. It was a crazy feeding frenzy. The question is whether it has ended or not.

Colin_Kee

PPS 14 wasn't just daft, It was down right brainless. What sort of idiots would completely Ban development in the countryside. I would say it was definitely one of the main contributors to the house price escalation as it just added high hundreds, if not thousands, of people to the “town” housing market in one fell swoop. Look also at the effect it’s having in the towns and cities. Lovely old houses, full of character, being knocked down for “development opportunities”. Gardens being sold off for flats, eating into our town & cities green areas.
I have no objection to tightening the regulations in rural development, I would be the last one wanting to see houses popping up in every nook & cranny of the countryside, but there has to be a sensible approach to it.
There are some monstrosities of houses in our locality built in the countryside which do not do the local countryside any justice. They don’t blend into their environment & just look like eyesores.
I now hope the planning authority buck up their ideas and take a common sense approach to this issue.
As previously said, I hope this will have a knock on effect on stabilising the housing market. (Mind you I can just see all these short term investiors panicking now and the house prices falling as they try to get rid of their houses)

Lindsay-Lou

All that AND the extra pressure the developments have put on the already decrepit water/sewerage systems - which the developers dont have any responsibility to contribute to so now we all get landed with paying to have the whole thing updated.