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kettlejim
Because the UK has not enough housing stock do you think there's likely to be some kind of "new build" building boom starting once the effects of the pandemic have subsided (Hoping they do continue to do so)
Does anybody think that there might be a boom in new builds for the next few years?
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Captain Nemesis
Nothing, but nothing, has ever triggered one.
Plenty of things have triggered governments to spout off about how they are going to get all these houses built and end the shortage, but nothing significant ever actually happens. And meanwhile the large builders continue to hoard land and bleat about planning problems.
We need a government not beholden to business, not beholden to people who regard housing as wealth, not beholden to Little Englander newspapers, to JFDI - to set really aggressive deadlines to land bankers, not for housing starts, but for completed and sold/let properties, failure to meet which would result in confiscation of the land. Not compulsory purchase - JFTI off them. We need them to insist on significant percentages of affordable housing, and to respond with the legal equivalent of a punch in the throat when they try their traditional whining and wheedling to backslide on agreements they made. We need to insist that the affordable properties be to the same standards as the "full price" ones and to have the same access to the same amenities in the developments.
And above all we need a government prepared to build large amounts of social housing, to keep on doing it, and to never, ever, sell it off.
Be aware though that any significant construction programme will require significant numbers of migrant workers, as we have under-invested in training up the people we would need for decades.
Plenty of things have triggered governments to spout off about how they are going to get all these houses built and end the shortage, but nothing significant ever actually happens. And meanwhile the large builders continue to hoard land and bleat about planning problems.
We need a government not beholden to business, not beholden to people who regard housing as wealth, not beholden to Little Englander newspapers, to JFDI - to set really aggressive deadlines to land bankers, not for housing starts, but for completed and sold/let properties, failure to meet which would result in confiscation of the land. Not compulsory purchase - JFTI off them. We need them to insist on significant percentages of affordable housing, and to respond with the legal equivalent of a punch in the throat when they try their traditional whining and wheedling to backslide on agreements they made. We need to insist that the affordable properties be to the same standards as the "full price" ones and to have the same access to the same amenities in the developments.
And above all we need a government prepared to build large amounts of social housing, to keep on doing it, and to never, ever, sell it off.
Be aware though that any significant construction programme will require significant numbers of migrant workers, as we have under-invested in training up the people we would need for decades.
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Bodd
Lots of house building round Harlow Bishops Stortford Stansted and surrounding areas.
Harlow getting new Hospital and Public health England HQ. One new school. Up Bishop Stortford today lots of new housing and new secondary school.
New Link Road will see the creation of a dual-carriageway between the A120 and A133. Walking and cycling facilities will also be provided, which will ultimately join up with the Garden Community facilities once developed.
So plenty going on
Harlow getting new Hospital and Public health England HQ. One new school. Up Bishop Stortford today lots of new housing and new secondary school.
New Link Road will see the creation of a dual-carriageway between the A120 and A133. Walking and cycling facilities will also be provided, which will ultimately join up with the Garden Community facilities once developed.
So plenty going on
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Bodd
I'd never buy any new house.. all built to such bad standards
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Private housebuilding will never solve the housing crisis....for the simple reason their profits depend on high house prices.
the only long term solution is a huge programme of public house building.
but it will only happen if generation rent get so pee'd off they start to vote for a party that will deliver it.
The trouble is when it comes down to it no political party will actually state that as their aim...
Because the UK economy is based on one main thing...
Imaginary assets, and that effectively means house prices!
Is any party even suggesting it?
Green party talks a moderate game.
Remind us how many MP's do they have?
And how many will they ever expect to get under the UK's archaic undemocratic electoral system?
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Well looking around there is an enormous amount of house building underway.
My home village has seen it's allocation of 35 houses built by 2025 already exceeded, with more to be built in the next 12 months. The adjoining village is approaching 60 houses completed out of 100. That means the foul water processing plant for the 2 villages is now operating at 40-50% over design capacity and the pressure is causing regular breakdowns.
Another adjacent village has 3 small sites underway in the green spaces in the middle of the village.
The speed and 'quality' of the building program means the 'Professional' DIY's will have lots of work in a few years time.
The town where the wife comes from has one site underway building 3500 houses outside the towns ringroad. There is at least one other site planned along the same stretch of road to have a similar number of houses built. The green space (unofficially - the kids playground / sports field) between an existing development and the ring road being is 'developed' with a few hundred houses.
With the pressure to build more 'social housing' new ones will never be like the post WW2 ones as there has to be a compromise between land availability, house Sq. Meterage, and amount of houses built. Maybe there will have to be more compulsory purchasing of back gardens in towns to build another row of houses as has been done in parts of some cities.
Of course the more land built on means less land for agriculture.
In the end the solution is to reduce the fecundity of the homo sapiens.
My home village has seen it's allocation of 35 houses built by 2025 already exceeded, with more to be built in the next 12 months. The adjoining village is approaching 60 houses completed out of 100. That means the foul water processing plant for the 2 villages is now operating at 40-50% over design capacity and the pressure is causing regular breakdowns.
Another adjacent village has 3 small sites underway in the green spaces in the middle of the village.
The speed and 'quality' of the building program means the 'Professional' DIY's will have lots of work in a few years time.
The town where the wife comes from has one site underway building 3500 houses outside the towns ringroad. There is at least one other site planned along the same stretch of road to have a similar number of houses built. The green space (unofficially - the kids playground / sports field) between an existing development and the ring road being is 'developed' with a few hundred houses.
With the pressure to build more 'social housing' new ones will never be like the post WW2 ones as there has to be a compromise between land availability, house Sq. Meterage, and amount of houses built. Maybe there will have to be more compulsory purchasing of back gardens in towns to build another row of houses as has been done in parts of some cities.
Of course the more land built on means less land for agriculture.
In the end the solution is to reduce the fecundity of the homo sapiens.
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Bodd
So true .... it's Scandalous
As has been said, the council's need to replace all the houses they sold off and then some.
They also need to ban selling the houses at such a discount.
Regardless of rent paid over the years to make it somewhat easier maybe do a scheme where the council pays the stamp and legal fees so effectively giving a small discount
They also need to ban selling the houses at such a discount.
Regardless of rent paid over the years to make it somewhat easier maybe do a scheme where the council pays the stamp and legal fees so effectively giving a small discount
The biggest issue is they now due to economics can't just build all the houses they require because if the house prices dip too much there will be to many people with a mortgage far bigger than their house is worth.
Which is a big no no for the economy.
Another way to attempt to solve the issue is to heavily tax those with more than one home, and for private landlords to pay corporation tax at a high rate forcing everyone to sell off their portfolio, but once again this will put a strain on many economic factors and would also reduce free enterprise which we try and promote as much as possible..
Which is a big no no for the economy.
Another way to attempt to solve the issue is to heavily tax those with more than one home, and for private landlords to pay corporation tax at a high rate forcing everyone to sell off their portfolio, but once again this will put a strain on many economic factors and would also reduce free enterprise which we try and promote as much as possible..
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Captain Nemesis
They could have done that with the money they got from selling them.
Oh,wait....
They also need to ban selling the houses
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