More farmland under tarmac?

[Kentishfarmer]

Kent has built more new houses than any other county in the last 5 years and the numbers just keep on increasing! Its already a nightmare to farm some parts of it because of all the people. Once the "Garden of England" now the Patio of London...

 

[bluebell]

one day in the not distant future we in this country will look at the mess been created, with uncontrolled development with no clear plan? just a panic moode we must build more houses, we must build more houses, for who for what ?with the countryside whats left of it in the southeast lying in tatters?

 

[Surgery]

fact every year the UK looses between 12-30 thousand acres of farmland, countryside whatever ? to development, dosnt take much working out that this just cant contine on this scale ? what with our population increasing faster and faster? by the day ? if we have had just over 6,000 so far this year come by boats and i bet the figure is alot more because thats those offficially caught? might sound racist but facts let im all in then see what happens?

Bet in the last few years it would be 30k acres easy , I bet the amount each year sold to private houses would be thousands too , garden-pony paddocks etc plus thousands being lost to new roads-railways etc , can’t continue can it?

 

[bluebell]

this is the number one question that should be asked about the countryside, farmland ? it seems to be a bit of an imbarrisment to dare ask the question why its needed for who ? where all this massive large scale development most of which is on good farmland, is or will end to, lead to? thats my view, ive seen massive massive change already now in my area, and if all the planned building is done what a s...thole my little once nice part of our great country it will become?

 

[Steevo]

Are other countries building at the same speed we are?

 

[Gong Farmer]

Are other countries building at the same speed we are?

They don't need to, all their people are coming here.

 

[Cowabunga]

It is pretty terrible when you think of how much land is being taken away at such a huge scale, we are a growing population and taking such a large amount of land like there doing eventually we will be in huge trouble

Population growth in the UK could be stopped almost tomorrow. The indigenous population is actually falling and it has been immigration that has kept it growing. One in five babies are now born to parents that were not born in the UK.
Until now and for the last decade or more, we have actually needed immigrants to fill available jobs.

 

[Cowabunga]

Are other countries building at the same speed we are?

Think 'China'!

 

[farenheit]

If only there weren't these people selling all this land for development, making life harder for farmers! Oh hang on

 

[roscoe erf]

I hope not, but can't see that it will be any old industrial site.

Diggers get to work on enormous Kent lorry park

And will it go back to agriculture when all's said and done? Not likely.

I reckon these huge holding areas will end up like the extra hospitals set up for the thousands of cases of ChineseVirus we were going to get. Not used and disbanded.

Why do we panic so easily these days?

It’s about time they built better and more domestic facilities for lorry drivers