PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING: Hello Forumites! In order to help keep the Forum a useful, safe and friendly place for our users, discussions around non-MoneySaving matters are not permitted per the Forum rules. While we understand that mentioning house prices may sometimes be relevant to a user's specific MoneySaving situation, we ask that you please avoid veering into broad, general debates about the market, the economy and politics, as these can unfortunately lead to abusive or hateful behaviour. Threads that are found to have derailed into wider discussions may be removed. Users who repeatedly disregard this may have their Forum account banned. Please also avoid posting personally identifiable information, including links to your own online property listing which may reveal your address. Thank you for your understanding.
We're aware that some users are experiencing technical issues which the team are working to resolve. Thank you for your patience.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

What's with the housing boom?

Options
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...

Comments

  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    edited 29 May 2016 at 9:54AM
    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
    dirty_magic Posts: 1,145 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    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
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    edited 29 May 2016 at 11:55AM
    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:(
  • 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
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    edited 29 May 2016 at 12:25PM
    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
    Marktheshark Posts: 5,841 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    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 do Contracts, all day every day.
  • DRP
    DRP Posts: 4,287 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    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
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    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...
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 350.7K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 453.4K Spending & Discounts
  • 243.7K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 598.4K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 176.8K Life & Family
  • 256.9K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.