300,000 homes where are they going?

[Flat 10]

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. Nor 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.

 

[nick...]

With all these new homes no one ever gets everything else to go along with it.in my nearest town,wymondham there are several huge devolopments going on at the moment.the roads can't cope with constant roadworks,chronic shortage of doctors and dentists and other facilities too.need more schools to.
Nick...

 

[Iben]

Of course they will build them in the south east! That's where everyone wants to be.

Must be perfect for local farmers, all those extra customers on your doorstep!

 

[roscoe erf]

Of course they will build them in the south east! That's where everyone wants to be.

Must be perfect for local farmers, all those extra customers on your doorstep!

I wish they would stop it keeps getting higher here every year

 

[7610 super q]

Why are they bothering..... thousands of houses struggling to sell ( look at Rightmove ) as it is.

 

[Flat 10]

Of course they will build them in the south east! That's where everyone wants to be.

Must be perfect for local farmers, all those extra customers on your doorstep!

Thanks for your support. I might sell up and come to Scotland.....

 

[Flat 10]

Why are they bothering..... thousands of houses struggling to sell ( look at Rightmove ) as it is.

When the interest rates go up and the debt bubble bursts (which it will) there will be half finished developments everywhere like there was in Ireland a few years ago. However my concern is that they may have concreted over the SE before that day comes.........

 

[Netherfield]

On the land the builders have banked away.

 

[ollie989898]

Plenty of land left to build on. The idea that it is eating into farmland is nonsense.

 

[Iben]

Thanks for your support. I might sell up and come to Scotland.....

Your more than welcome! You will get lonely though, there is hardly anyone here.


Would like to keep it that way.

 

[bobk]

They can build them here .

 

[Iben]

They can build them here .

Done!!!!!

 

[Still Farming]

The Council around here love "granting"themselves planning where you and me would never get a chance ???

 

[two-cylinder]

When the interest rates go up and the debt bubble bursts (which it will) there will be half finished developments everywhere like there was in Ireland a few years ago. However my concern is that they may have concreted over the SE before that day comes.........

They're going in the Cambridge/Oxford/London triangle.
Goodbye Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Thousands of houses are already planned in the S.East and permission already granted.
The small market town of Hailsham will double in size in ten years.

Loads of houses being built in villages as well as permitted development on farms.

The biggest problem will be that the Polish builders are all going home.

 

[Granite Farmer]

The worst thing about these new builds is that they'll be shoddily put together and it will be tiny, probably smaller than a Victorian terraced house. There is unlikely to be any off road parking and the streets will be so narrow (with parked cars on either side) it'll be tight for most modern cars. The really insulting part is they want you to cough up a least £215k? for a 2 bed new build terrace in this part of the world.

 

[grimmy]

Plenty of land left to build on. The idea that it is eating into farmland is nonsense.

Except it isnt nonsense. Theres alot of farmland around here (bucks/oxon border) being built on

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Your more than welcome! You will get lonely though, there is hardly anyone here.


Would like to keep it that way.

Thats because they have all headed "South", way further south and south of the Bombay Hills.....

 

[franklin]

It would be no great shame to build on half the land, given UK government doesnt like us and Joe Public seem indiferent about supporting UK food. Build everywhere and lets have a prosperous service-based economy.

 

[Lincs Lass]

40 of them are going at the back of my house