Report by home builders saying home buyers need to be given more free money to buy homes.
The real issue is that they build insanely priced homes of questionable quality. We’re on the market with a top 2% income and yet every new build in a decent area is unaffordable.
A lot of it is the “Building Safety Regulator” being so shit that it’s preventing anything from being built, preventing people from moving into homes they’ve bought and have been built, and in many cases, preventing cladding remediation work from happening! I can’t see that being changed though because a headline like “Government scraps Building Safety Regulator” sounds very bad. However it should be said the UK is the only country that has a centralised regulator that has to approve EVERY tall building individually.
In most other countries, this is left to local authorities (including us, before the building safety act).
Instead of creating a new shitty quango we should’ve just done targeted bans on cladding.
Classic case of acute red tape infection. The engineering solution is there but green belt issues and applying to the council is a long-winded and expensive affair with no clear outcomes. If I knew I will get approval subject to conditions, I would still make an application. And yes, the quality of some projects I ve seen leaves much to be desired. As always, it’s the members of the public who will pay for this policy paralysis.
It’s interesting, the picture is of Muswell Hill I believe? Great houses, but most could definitely use a renovation and could be turned into fantastic multi flat arrangements
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Report by home builders saying home buyers need to be given more free money to buy homes.
The real issue is that they build insanely priced homes of questionable quality. We’re on the market with a top 2% income and yet every new build in a decent area is unaffordable.
A lot of it is the “Building Safety Regulator” being so shit that it’s preventing anything from being built, preventing people from moving into homes they’ve bought and have been built, and in many cases, preventing cladding remediation work from happening! I can’t see that being changed though because a headline like “Government scraps Building Safety Regulator” sounds very bad. However it should be said the UK is the only country that has a centralised regulator that has to approve EVERY tall building individually.
In most other countries, this is left to local authorities (including us, before the building safety act).
Instead of creating a new shitty quango we should’ve just done targeted bans on cladding.
Classic case of acute red tape infection. The engineering solution is there but green belt issues and applying to the council is a long-winded and expensive affair with no clear outcomes. If I knew I will get approval subject to conditions, I would still make an application. And yes, the quality of some projects I ve seen leaves much to be desired. As always, it’s the members of the public who will pay for this policy paralysis.
It’s interesting, the picture is of Muswell Hill I believe? Great houses, but most could definitely use a renovation and could be turned into fantastic multi flat arrangements
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