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[mightymoyes]

I agree there is a massive housing crisis but where do you wish these houses to be built?

I do not want to see any more green belt land swallowed up by concrete.

there are around a million empty houses in the UK for a variety of reasons

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I agree there is a massive housing crisis but where do you wish these houses to be built?

I do not want to see any more green belt land swallowed up by concrete.

Have experience with with Welsh Labour and their recommencing council house builds, in principle in agreement, however, what has happned is they have built on green spaces in urban area that was well used as recreational areas for local communities' and what has unfolded is more people using less places and anti social behaviors are on the increase.

The other day the local green project without consultation to local people decided to plant a forest where the only place kids could play football on grass locally, and now aghast that half of it has been trampled down.

Myself lucky can jump in the petrol car and find a quiet more spacious area not the same for everyone.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

there are around a million empty houses in the UK for a variety of reasons

Would that include Air B and B. This is just strange happening, we have literally entire villages turned into holiday areas and then build on prime farm land on the out skirts but out of sight of the village to house local people who once lived in the village.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I agree there is a massive housing crisis but where do you wish these houses to be built?

I do not want to see any more green belt land swallowed up by concrete.

Greenbelt myth is the driving force behind the housing crisis | LSE British Politics

There is a housing crisis in England, writ large in London, and it is a crisis of supply. Paul Cheshire points out that, contrary to popular perception, there is plenty of space to build new houses, and argues that we need to reform the regulation that is forcing land to be rationed and cities to be

blogs.lse.ac.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

And also this

Housing backlog – more than a million homes with planning permission not yet built

More than a million homes granted planning permission in the past decade have not yet been built, according to new analysis by the Local Government Association.

www.local.gov.uk

 

[Rita_Poon]

neville chamberlain and that piece of paper

james cleverly and the new treaty with Rwanda...

Disaster.

 

[Walken]

Greenbelt myth is the driving force behind the housing crisis | LSE British Politics

There is a housing crisis in England, writ large in London, and it is a crisis of supply. Paul Cheshire points out that, contrary to popular perception, there is plenty of space to build new houses, and argues that we need to reform the regulation that is forcing land to be rationed and cities to be

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Its literally any opportunity from the usual crowd to point score against conservationism.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Its literally any opportunity from the usual crowd to point score against conservationism.

How do you mean?

 

[Goat]

Housing is an issue because we simply don't build enough. Fixing the planning system is where you should be directing your ire, not at people coming to work and study here who are desperately needed. I've said before, but if the birthrate magically doubled such the 750k new babies were created a year, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I wonder why?

I was blinded briefly by a headline without context. After reading up on the issue my stance has changed.

I was guilty of briefly being duped by right wing propaganda.

But thankfully this version of myself isn't as gullible as the younger me.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

New rules means that if i move back to the U.K. with my family (which could likely happen for any number of reasons, including health) need to be walking into a 38k a year job.
Have no roots in London so is pretty unlikely that this would be possible for us (both skilled professionals as well)
Basically I could only move alone or not at all

Same here, buddy.

 

[Walken]

How do you mean?

There is a rhetoric around the housing crisis I've noticed that (like many issues) is looking to paint environmentalism as some sort of enemy of the people. As the article you posted hints at it requires little research to see that is not where the issue lies, even when the word green is involved.

 

[Billy Dean]

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

New rules means that if i move back to the U.K. with my family (which could likely happen for any number of reasons, including health) need to be walking into a 38k a year job.
Have no roots in London so is pretty unlikely that this would be possible for us (both skilled professionals as well)
Basically I could only move alone or not at all

Same here, buddy.

Legit, stay where you are. The UK sucks balls badly. I honestly think you'd be better off dying in your respective host countries than returning to this festering Isle of misery.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Absolutely scuppered us this. We had pencilled in returning in a couple of years largely due to family support networks with a young kid. Gonna have to think of something else now as doubt labour will do anything.

 

[Walken]

Absolutely scuppered us this. We had pencilled in returning in a couple of years largely due to family support networks with a young kid. Gonna have to think of something else now as doubt labour will do anything.

Well we can't upset the racists who vote based on the last headline they saw, amazing that a nation is held to ransom by its least informed