Meanwhile in other posts people talking how we shouldn’t build more homes
Large high quality social housing builds in the northern inner cities should be the priority. Rebuild the inner cities destroyed by idiot post war planners.
if that planning reform doesnt include having the government putting up houses, this will be impotent.
pestminsters house building is entirely driven by deluded neo-lib ideology that refuses to address human decency and the costs to the wider economy of economically dead weight like standing property. only that they should stop building houses if price rises slow.
He’s full of shit , he will say anything to sound sincere and then backtrack his way out of it .
House builders are limiting supply to maximise profits. Planning reform is a red herring.
Nothing will change unless a govt breaks the house builders monopoly by building homes itself like it used to.
The way that labour is talking, I might switch sides.
Ah judging by his record with pledges I feel confident the housing crisis is basically resolved already. Nothing to worry about.
Right now the current PM and Cabinet have been outstanding.
Doubt if Labour could have achieved even a third of what the Torys have done since Rishni has been PM.
Sure they are working on the housebuilding too.
What they should do is conscript the unemployed into building houses as was being suggested by the boss of a farmers union this week.
> However, the party gave no detail as to the nature of the planning reforms it intended.
This is a bit of a problem because planning “reform” could mean anything from sensible reforms to individual bits of regulation to just wholesale gutting the system like hard right libertarian dickheads would want. Really need some more specific details to be able to comment on this.
I would suck dick to get the Town County Planning Act abolished…
I’m on my KNEES here, we can easily smash 3% GDP growth per annum if we do this…
It’s a simple fix for anyone who’s not in the pockets of the landlords and property developers:
1. Ban foreign ownership of UK properties… too many overseas nationals and companies see our housing as an investment.
2. Ban multiple home ownership. Or limit to two… but that would probably be abused.
3. Rebuild stocks of social housing for those that can’t buy.
4. Ban AirBnB
5. Develop a government assist programme for first time buyers
6. Ban corporations from owning residential properties.
7. Ban housing developers from from purchasing viable land/ properties and then sitting in them and waiting until market prices go up.
Allow 5 years for implementation and adjust as necessary.
Will some people lose out… probably. Is it ethical to make money from people who can afford to rent your fifth property, but the system is rigged against them buying the same property… absolutely not.
There does need to be reform, if a housing developer builds more than 500 or so houses then they are duty bound to build shopping infrastructure(tesco express/sainsburys local type shop) and even going on as far as building schools and doctors at some threshold.
having been on many building sites over the last ten years, most housing developers will share a building site with other developers to avoid building so many houses which means they need to build none housing buildings.
In my town, in the last 10 years, I would guess that 5000 homes have been built, yet not one new school or doctors facility has been made.
It wont change with a Labour government.
We are reaching a political point where labour and the conservatives are very similar in how they operate, but their public image isn’t. JC would have been excellent had he of beaten May because he was so vastly different. If Starmer becomes PM It wont happen because people want Starmer, its because the public no longer want to vote Tory and too scared to vote for another party which could mean radical change.
Local planners hold too much power. They want me to use an approved contractor (one of their mates) to put in a drop kerb in my rural property. Doing so would quadruple the cost of an incredibly simple job.
We need a huge housing reform, go ask an architect on the state of our housing design guidelines or an urban planner.
We have bad designs out of choice, all it would take is a massive collaborative rewriting of our legislation of it.
I haven’t seen a pledge by starmer he didn’t abandon a few months later yet
LOL. Those who have houses don’t want anymore building near them. Those who need them want them building in a nice area. We need to protect green land, and the developers don’t want to build on brown field sites claiming it’s too expensive. Round and round we go
“We need more houses for our kids”
“Housing development planned”
10 million reasons pop up that it can’t happen. With loads of nimbys
Prediction: attempts at meaningful reform of the land and building rationing system we call “planning” (by any party) will ultimately be defeated by the UK’s NIMBY culture.
Reform is badly needed, I just do not see a political route to making it happen.
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Meanwhile in other posts people talking how we shouldn’t build more homes
Large high quality social housing builds in the northern inner cities should be the priority. Rebuild the inner cities destroyed by idiot post war planners.
if that planning reform doesnt include having the government putting up houses, this will be impotent.
pestminsters house building is entirely driven by deluded neo-lib ideology that refuses to address human decency and the costs to the wider economy of economically dead weight like standing property. only that they should stop building houses if price rises slow.
He’s full of shit , he will say anything to sound sincere and then backtrack his way out of it .
House builders are limiting supply to maximise profits. Planning reform is a red herring.
Nothing will change unless a govt breaks the house builders monopoly by building homes itself like it used to.
The way that labour is talking, I might switch sides.
Ah judging by his record with pledges I feel confident the housing crisis is basically resolved already. Nothing to worry about.
Right now the current PM and Cabinet have been outstanding.
Doubt if Labour could have achieved even a third of what the Torys have done since Rishni has been PM.
Sure they are working on the housebuilding too.
What they should do is conscript the unemployed into building houses as was being suggested by the boss of a farmers union this week.
> However, the party gave no detail as to the nature of the planning reforms it intended.
This is a bit of a problem because planning “reform” could mean anything from sensible reforms to individual bits of regulation to just wholesale gutting the system like hard right libertarian dickheads would want. Really need some more specific details to be able to comment on this.
I would suck dick to get the Town County Planning Act abolished…
I’m on my KNEES here, we can easily smash 3% GDP growth per annum if we do this…
It’s a simple fix for anyone who’s not in the pockets of the landlords and property developers:
1. Ban foreign ownership of UK properties… too many overseas nationals and companies see our housing as an investment.
2. Ban multiple home ownership. Or limit to two… but that would probably be abused.
3. Rebuild stocks of social housing for those that can’t buy.
4. Ban AirBnB
5. Develop a government assist programme for first time buyers
6. Ban corporations from owning residential properties.
7. Ban housing developers from from purchasing viable land/ properties and then sitting in them and waiting until market prices go up.
Allow 5 years for implementation and adjust as necessary.
Will some people lose out… probably. Is it ethical to make money from people who can afford to rent your fifth property, but the system is rigged against them buying the same property… absolutely not.
There does need to be reform, if a housing developer builds more than 500 or so houses then they are duty bound to build shopping infrastructure(tesco express/sainsburys local type shop) and even going on as far as building schools and doctors at some threshold.
having been on many building sites over the last ten years, most housing developers will share a building site with other developers to avoid building so many houses which means they need to build none housing buildings.
In my town, in the last 10 years, I would guess that 5000 homes have been built, yet not one new school or doctors facility has been made.
It wont change with a Labour government.
We are reaching a political point where labour and the conservatives are very similar in how they operate, but their public image isn’t. JC would have been excellent had he of beaten May because he was so vastly different. If Starmer becomes PM It wont happen because people want Starmer, its because the public no longer want to vote Tory and too scared to vote for another party which could mean radical change.
Local planners hold too much power. They want me to use an approved contractor (one of their mates) to put in a drop kerb in my rural property. Doing so would quadruple the cost of an incredibly simple job.
We need a huge housing reform, go ask an architect on the state of our housing design guidelines or an urban planner.
We have bad designs out of choice, all it would take is a massive collaborative rewriting of our legislation of it.
I haven’t seen a pledge by starmer he didn’t abandon a few months later yet
LOL. Those who have houses don’t want anymore building near them. Those who need them want them building in a nice area. We need to protect green land, and the developers don’t want to build on brown field sites claiming it’s too expensive. Round and round we go
“We need more houses for our kids”
“Housing development planned”
10 million reasons pop up that it can’t happen. With loads of nimbys
Prediction: attempts at meaningful reform of the land and building rationing system we call “planning” (by any party) will ultimately be defeated by the UK’s NIMBY culture.
Reform is badly needed, I just do not see a political route to making it happen.