Walsall: Campaigners vow to fight green belt homes plan

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  1. Pretty impossible to win this fight, developers are scumbags and the Tory housing strategy is to destroy as much of the countryside as possible.

  2. I do feel for those running out of green space, because it’s important to mental health. Why don’t we build upwards much? Some decently insulated, non-flammable blocks of flats, like they have in Korea, Japan etc, where they still manage to maintain huge amounts of green space.

    Would help if around 18% (4.5 million) of the 24.7 million dwellings in the UK weren’t private sectors rentals, of those 48% being owned by just 17% of landlords:

    * “45% of landlords have just one rental property. This represents 21% of the
    private rented sector. A further 38% own between two and four properties
    (representing 31% of the sector). The remaining 17% of landlords own five or
    more properties, representing 48% of the private rented sector.
    * Ignoring the methodological differences, since 2010, the proportion of landlords
    with just one property has declined from 78% to 45% or from 40% to 21% of the
    sector. Meanwhile, the proportion of landlords with five or more properties
    increased from 5% to 17% or from 39% to 48% of the sector.”

    source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/775002/EPLS_main_report.pdf

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