300,000 homes where are they going?

[Bald Rick]

What you boys in the SE need are a few nuclear power stations ........ amazing how it stops house building

 

[two-cylinder]

What are they doing with CIL monies?

 

[Chasingmytail]

Council around here are amalgamating schools and selling off the sites to builders (too cheap). Then there are building companies sitting on planning. Some brown field sites. I do see outskirts of Cardiff spreading out. All along the M4 Newport (up to Pontypool) over to Caldicot to Chepstow is all growing for the Bristol market ready for when they scrap the tolls.

Low rise flats with under carparks are what are needed combined with quality building, good south facing, trees, solar, water collection. Problems are that the grid is pretty much to capacity (no plans to extend), sewage, schools, LA funds and roads are already pushed to capacity. All along the South Wales M4 and A roads are chocka - It can take 1hr to get onto the M4 junction if you leave too late and we aren't exactly in the hub.

 

[Lincs Lass]

When they eventually get building here its going to be a nightmare ,,one entrance directly opposite the primary school,the other is down a narrow road which they plan to make into a one way system once the estate is built ,,the old drainage system was put in sometime around 1950-55 which cant deal with heavy rain now let alone having a load more surface water getting shoved down them,but thats not getting upgraded .
The make matters worse ,their boundary will fall 3 ft from my garden wall which means I wont even be able to get a vehicle anywhere near the back door as that's the only entrance I have ,the front door is straight out onto the road .
Developers bought the land about 8 yrs ago but the housing market at the time wasn't good so they have sat on it just waiting for the right time ,,other than scratching a couple of footings in to keep the planning live ,they don't seem overly interested in breaking ground ,well only the archaeological digs which the council have insisted on

 

[FonterraFarmer]

There's a few thousand going up here , local roads are already at breaking point and local councils seem to just go along with whatever the developer suggests, it's an absolute disaster.

Same here, the council couldn't give feck about the locals, their just interested in the revenue collection from rates

 

[Chasingmytail]

There is still problems with properties being empty, wealthy people buying property and leaving empty to bury money, houses left to fall into disrepair and councils struggling to take legal action. Then listed buildings which no one wants to renovate as the council put so many stipulations on leaving these big old buildings to go beyond help - Old churches with little architectural merit being listed which should be demolished and land sold off for new communities - see a lot of this in the valleys lets face it who wants a huge ugly church? Its not all about building on green fields.

 

[Still Farming]

Council around here are amalgamating schools and selling off the sites to builders (too cheap). Then there are building companies sitting on planning. Some brown field sites. I do see outskirts of Cardiff spreading out. All along the M4 Newport (up to Pontypool) over to Caldicot to Chepstow is all growing for the Bristol market ready for when they scrap the tolls.

Low rise flats with under carparks are what are needed combined with quality building, good south facing, trees, solar, water collection. Problems are that the grid is pretty much to capacity (no plans to extend), sewage, schools, LA funds and roads are already pushed to capacity. All along the South Wales M4 and A roads are chocka - It can take 1hr to get onto the M4 junction if you leave too late and we aren't exactly in the hub.

What I said earlier.
Council granting themselves Planning.
If you "aligned the stars " or granted yourselves permissions you be referred to the monopolies commission or done for corruption or something ???

 

[Still Farming]

There is still problems with properties being empty, wealthy people buying property and leaving empty to bury money, houses left to fall into disrepair and councils struggling to take legal action. Then listed buildings which no one wants to renovate as the council put so many stipulations on leaving these big old buildings to go beyond help - Old churches with little architectural merit being listed which should be demolished and land sold off for new communities - see a lot of this in the valleys lets face it who wants a huge ugly church? Its not all about building on green fields.

The rates increase for empty properties from 50 to 100% will educate that in today Budget !

 

[MF-ANDY]

Not here I hope. My part of this small island is full but despite this is being concreted over apace. Local infrastructure is at breaking point. Not to mention the future shortages of water and electricity that WILL occur in the SE soon. Not to mention the fact that building in many parts round here relies on flood protection, funding for which is declining.
I think we should encourage emigration myself. (joking but it has its pluses, remember hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, they sent the most important people off in the first spaceship......)
Anyway who is going to benefit apart from a few farmers who get wodges of cash (and then reinvest with rollover and fudge the ag land market further) and some spivvy developers? I am very depressed at the prospect. Its back to the days of Mr Prescott concreting over the South.

Well we know where 200+ are going[emoji30]

 

[Chasingmytail]

The rates increase for empty properties from 50 to 100% will educate that in today Budget !

Be interesting I have listed farmhouse under renovation which I pay 100% council tax even though it is under renovation but is not habitable as has no stairs but in Kensington Borough they get reduction in council tax - says it all.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I always find it ironic that anyone who lives in a house should object to a house being built for someone else to live in

So if you lived in a shed or a caravan, then it's OK to object?

 

[Flat 10]

I always find it ironic that anyone who lives in a house should object to a house being built for someone else to live in

People who are living on the streets are hardly likely to be able to afford a house are they? Population isn’t really growing at the rate of 300,000 a year either.

 

[Lincoln75]

So if you lived in a shed or a caravan, then it's OK to object?

You wouldnt if the house was being built on your shed site

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Done!!!!!

Lifestyle blocks north of Cambridge,ffs

 

[FonterraFarmer]

You wouldnt if the house was being built on your shed site

Like f@#£ if a house is going to be built on my shed site!!!

 

[icanshootwell]

More GPs surgeries will pop up if populations increase , its very lucrative for GPs if there are enough residents in an area , as for roads more will be built but not fast enough I suspect so it will cause issues initially.

I get the impression by your posts, more is better? You want to take a drive through Hereford, gridlocked all day long, no bypass, They keep building houses, but the roads cant cope. Were told the council has no budget for road improvements, but social housing, no problem.

 

[Lincoln75]

People who are living on the streets are hardly likely to be able to afford a house are they? Population isn’t really growing at the rate of 300,000 a year either.

http://www.thehomesweneed.org.uk

 

[Lincoln75]

Like f@#£ if a house is going to be built on my shed site!!!

Ha , £1m an acre do ?

 

[Lincoln75]

I get the impression by your posts, more is better? You want to take a drive through Hereford, gridlocked all day long, no bypass, They keep building houses, but the roads cant cope. Were told the council has no budget for road improvements, but social housing, no problem.

The problem is people , less people would mean less houses needed so a radical no immigration and a deportation scheme is the only other way , no politico would dare even suggest it though.

 

[Still Farming]

Any building going on in Syria,libya,Iraq or Afganistan yet by matter of interest only ???