What's with the housing boom?

[Deleted User]

Looking at a traditional area net me which is a lovely place to live, however having looked around the council have approved over 1000 new homes in this town which is already crowded and traffic is a nightmare already let alone when these houses go up.

To the point where I'm starting to think it maybe better to look elsewhere...

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/26/net-migration-to-uk-nears-peak-fewer-britons-emigrate

They gotta live somewhere

moneyistooshorttomention

This is happening to a lot of places in Southern England - for reason stated basically.

I could see my city going out and out and out......etc.

I checked out my Ideal Town again recently on Rightmove and realised there's a lot more places to buy than there was even a year ago. Reason being - a high proportion of those extra places are new-build. As for the ones that were there anyway - I suspect some "existing residents" are on the move because its not "their/my" town any more.

I alternate between sadness and fury at seeing this happening...

There's a poster elsewhere on here living in a small place and commenting that lots of houses being built here AND there AND someplace else will ruin their area over the next few years - and they are on the move out of there because of it.

It's all part of why I had to move from my own home area. I wouldnt have been pleased at it happening to an area I'd chosen as an adult - but to have it happening to my home area (in which I'd lived for the vast majority of my life) was really upsetting/infuriating.

dirty_magic

The same is happening here. I understand that more houses are needed but there doesn't seem to be any consideration of the infrastructure. We aren't getting more roads to cope with more traffic.

Lots of little and big estates are being built around here and they don't build multiple access roads linking to other roads, supposedly to stop them becoming rat runs. This just forces traffic onto one main road that already has congestion problems.

moneyistooshorttomention

I admit the thought doesnt cross my mind re roads (other than to think in terms of "That road is causing rather more pollution than it used to - courtesy of all the extra vehicles on it". The air in some parts of my home city had become pretty unbreathable as a result of all those extra cars - which was not very nice and I was getting distinctly worried about my health breathing in all those fumes. It is sometimes the little things like never wanting to take a deep breath - as it will be diluted traffic fumes (rather than air) that you are breathing:(:mad::(. It had got the position where I really didnt want to stand outside taking a deep breath at any time other than around 5am/6am of a Bank Holiday day (ie that was about the only time the air was fairly "reasonable/normal" to breathe). I was becoming so so cynical/disillusioned about that fact too...(the whole "try to take a deep breath...and find its followed by a burst of anger because of knowing how good the public transport is there" scenario).

I do get concerned about difficulties in getting doctor appointments and understand peoples concerns re getting their children into the schools they have decided on for them.

Add the necessity for suitable "countryside" nearby for leisure purposes (walks, etc). That was certainly something I noticed - ie places where I could formerly go for walks without too many other people also there at the same time hadnt changed that much of themselves - but there were a lot more "other people" also going for walks there at the same time to what there used to be:(

[Deleted User]

I've seen some going up near my family where they have built on top of a Hp gas main and British Gas were against it.

Also 2 other developments going up had nothing but appeals from residents etc yet they still went through with no consideration for improving the infrastructure around the area.

Some council people must be taking some very big pay offs from the developers...

moneyistooshorttomention

Deleted_User wrote: »

I've seen some going up near my family where they have built on top of a Hp gas main and British Gas were against it.

Also 2 other developments going up had nothing but appeals from residents etc yet they still went through with no consideration for improving the infrastructure around the area.

Some council people must be taking some very big pay offs from the developers...

I don't know about pay-offs so much - but the sheer amount of pressure I suspect is being put on local Councils by the Government to "build regardless". I understand they are all given targets they have to match of how many extra homes they can cram in...and will therefore look to do so (even if the Councillors have enough sense personally to turn it down).

In my Home City - I knew there was an element of "ego trips" going on whereby even "local" Councillors were giving the go-ahead to dicey building sometimes (ie because their ego dictated they personally wanted to be seen to part of the big "Boom...boom....wa-hey....area on the 'up' thing that was/is going on" thing). So I think it was ego (rather than pay-offs) that was motivating some of them. Many of the "locals" there were (past tense...!) very very proud of "Our City" (we knew just how good we were and how good we had it) and it got twisted by some of the egoists on our Council into "Let's attract every ******* else to Our City". Grrrrr....

....and then there are the more dispassionate "other" councillors thoroughly resenting Government pressure to "build/build/build regardless" but on the receiving end of all that pressure and therefore going along with all the daft ideas (eg building on known floodplains....).

Sorrees - you can probably tell just how livid I am that Our City got ruined....

Marktheshark

333,000 a year and its growing fast, some predict 500,000 this year will arrive.

As said above where do people think they will all live ?
Nobody thought of that one, Doh, dummies, silly me.
Forget about it and the problem will go away ?

We worked ten times as hard in this country to build what we have and we had better come up with an idea to keep it from them that did not.

DRP

Marktheshark wrote: »

333,000 a year and its growing fast, some predict 500,000 this year will arrive.

As said above where do people think they will all live ?
Nobody thought of that one, Doh, dummies, silly me.
Forget about it and the problem will go away ?

We worked ten times as hard in this country to build what we have and we had better come up with an idea to keep it from them that did not.

I wonder how many immigrants stay long-term, and how many stay long enough to buy a house?

Person_one

Marktheshark wrote: »

We worked ten times as hard in this country to build what we have and we had better come up with an idea to keep it from them that did not.

We? I don't think I work ten times as hard as every immigrant...