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UK Unoccupied dwellings, stats please?
Phirefly
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Team Wharf (Mr Phirefly, the basset hound and I) are going to a protest and I wish to be armed with the facts. Could anyone come up with some clear factual statistics which illustrate the number of unoccupied dwellings in the uk? That and any stats which demonstrate that building on greenbelt land is not the answer to the property 'shortage'. Thanks all.
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According to the Times there are 840,000 empty homes in the UK.
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article2966606.eceIn case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:0 -
Team Wharf (Mr Phirefly, the basset hound and I) are going to a protest and I wish to be armed with the facts. Could anyone come up with some clear factual statistics which illustrate the number of unoccupied dwellings in the uk? That and any stats which demonstrate that building on greenbelt land is not the answer to the property 'shortage'. Thanks all.
Times article"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 -
shucks, you guys are THE MOST
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(not that I approve)"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 -
I think that the 840,000 is about 4% of residential properties in the UK which is the lowest in Western Europe. From memory, a figure of about 10% is more typical as many rural areas are being abandoned, largely, and Eastern Germany's economy remains sclerotic.0
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"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 -
Colleagues of mine have compulsory purchased a few empty properties recently and brought them back into occupation. Not 840,000 of them though.
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Guy_Montag wrote: »But I want to build an eco home somewhere nice
New Age Hippy-type Buddhists come here to live in rural Spain and whitter on about 'treading lightly upon the earth'.
They then proceed to buy half a mountain and build an 'ecologically-friendly' house on it.
Why not buy one of the many abandoned ones (village-based or on their own up a mountain)? Surely renovating an existing dwelling is a far lighter way to tread upon the earth?
OP, good luck with your protest!(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
seven-day-weekend wrote: »New Age Hippy-type Buddhists come here to live in rural Spain and whitter on about 'treading lightly upon the earth'.
They then proceed to buy half a mountain and build an 'ecologically-friendly' house on it.
Why not buy one of the many abandoned ones (village-based or on their own up a mountain)? Surely renovating an existing dwelling is a far lighter way to tread upon the earth?
OP, good luck with your protest!
I'm suppose it depends on the original dwelling & the new one. A new house may be sufficiently efficient to make it worthwhile.
A bit like my Spitfire, by keeping it on the road it's saves buying a new car. On t'other hand it gets 25mpg so..."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
oh go on, approve 
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