I don’t see why tax payers should be paying (via their taxes to govt.) to insulate other peoples old houses.
There should be some ‘insulation scheme’ where the property owner can borrow the money at a preferential interest rate, or worst case, have a charge registered against the property.
England’s housing strategy has to be some sort of a joke it’s around £200,000+ for a house which will take around 20 years to pay off with monthly payments of £700+ and when your grandparents were born the price of a house was 2 years worth of your salary
We have an obsession of building American style terrible yet expensive cul-de-sacs. We need a level of housing that’s a middle ground, like say apartments.
I live in the midlands and where there are apartments they’re either ex council made for oap’s in the 80’s/90’s out of carboard that were sold off or they’re the same price to rent or buy as a small house.
Live in smaller houses? UK abodes are already fucking tiny…
So, uh, where are we going to live then?
Unless someone has some modest proposal to exterminate or expatriate several million people, then the UK will remain short a million or so houses compared to demand.
People need houses to live in. They should be well-insulated houses.
There needs be a dramatic increase in new build quality and regs. British houses should be insulated up to the eyeballs, really good quality windows and doors, etc. Most of what is built at the moment is cheap and shit.
Loosen regs on listed buildings so they can be renovated to modern standards without an absolute battle, the current system would rather see a listed building crumble to dust.
They wouldn’t need to build 300k houses if they stopped people from buying buy-to-lets and prevented foreign nationals from buying up all the housing stock just so it can sit empty and drive property prices up.
Well then cut carbon emissions somewhere else. Ban all petrol cars if you have to. People need somewhere to live.
It should also be pointed out that building homes near where people work (or on all the green space around London near tube stations) would cut carbon emissions too.
Reports like this are fodder for nimbys without proper context.
Scrap the green belt, reform planning, build more houses
So, so many people want to live alone. Divorced? Now the city or town takes 2 houses to accommodate you. Just had a mate separate. Now he’s dating and says he wants to live alone. His ex never wants a relationship again. Our modern society’s housing stock wasn’t built for this. Also, people want to love in the same area for little Timmy to be in the posh school.
Fuck the carbon budget we need places to live not hippy bs
Misleading headline.
Clearly states further on that building new homes only accounts for 5% of emissions whereas existing (poorly insulated) homes account for 95%.
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I don’t see why tax payers should be paying (via their taxes to govt.) to insulate other peoples old houses.
There should be some ‘insulation scheme’ where the property owner can borrow the money at a preferential interest rate, or worst case, have a charge registered against the property.
England’s housing strategy has to be some sort of a joke it’s around £200,000+ for a house which will take around 20 years to pay off with monthly payments of £700+ and when your grandparents were born the price of a house was 2 years worth of your salary
We have an obsession of building American style terrible yet expensive cul-de-sacs. We need a level of housing that’s a middle ground, like say apartments.
I live in the midlands and where there are apartments they’re either ex council made for oap’s in the 80’s/90’s out of carboard that were sold off or they’re the same price to rent or buy as a small house.
Live in smaller houses? UK abodes are already fucking tiny…
So, uh, where are we going to live then?
Unless someone has some modest proposal to exterminate or expatriate several million people, then the UK will remain short a million or so houses compared to demand.
People need houses to live in. They should be well-insulated houses.
There needs be a dramatic increase in new build quality and regs. British houses should be insulated up to the eyeballs, really good quality windows and doors, etc. Most of what is built at the moment is cheap and shit.
Loosen regs on listed buildings so they can be renovated to modern standards without an absolute battle, the current system would rather see a listed building crumble to dust.
They wouldn’t need to build 300k houses if they stopped people from buying buy-to-lets and prevented foreign nationals from buying up all the housing stock just so it can sit empty and drive property prices up.
Well then cut carbon emissions somewhere else. Ban all petrol cars if you have to. People need somewhere to live.
It should also be pointed out that building homes near where people work (or on all the green space around London near tube stations) would cut carbon emissions too.
Reports like this are fodder for nimbys without proper context.
Scrap the green belt, reform planning, build more houses
So, so many people want to live alone. Divorced? Now the city or town takes 2 houses to accommodate you. Just had a mate separate. Now he’s dating and says he wants to live alone. His ex never wants a relationship again. Our modern society’s housing stock wasn’t built for this. Also, people want to love in the same area for little Timmy to be in the posh school.
Fuck the carbon budget we need places to live not hippy bs
Misleading headline.
Clearly states further on that building new homes only accounts for 5% of emissions whereas existing (poorly insulated) homes account for 95%.