>This is ostensibly good news, but mortgage drawdown isn’t the same as people buying their own home, as this figure includes drawdowns for people building their own homes, not buying them on the market. This is not nit-picking. Analysis of housing completion and stamp duty figures shows that almost 40 per cent of those drawing down a mortgage for their first home in 2022 were self-builders, mostly rural, often building on their own land.
Wow.
It’s mad how people become fixtures in the media by complaining and end up twisting everything into a complaint. These are experts whining about too many apartments and not enough suburban sprawl.
Everything is dystopian it can’t just be bad urban planning and poor policy.
Headline is juicy and touches on something that I’ve been saying for a while but they don’t even remotely go as far as I’d go on the topic. The dystopian one-hour cities are like Citywest, where they are still piling on more houses without any regard for infrastructure or facilities to support it. They built a new school and that’s it. Nearest pub is an hour walk from the centre of the most of the development, there are no soccer fields or churches or garda stations and by the end of the current wave of housing to be completed will have the population of Carlow.
Way way to much one off housing. Such bad town planning in that you’ve these sparsely populated areas trying to drag services out to no where.
Reminds me of a farmer complaining that the council wouldn’t give a local needs permission for his son on the aran Islands. So many houses empty 6-9 months of the year with ugly houses dotted along the landscape.
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>This is ostensibly good news, but mortgage drawdown isn’t the same as people buying their own home, as this figure includes drawdowns for people building their own homes, not buying them on the market. This is not nit-picking. Analysis of housing completion and stamp duty figures shows that almost 40 per cent of those drawing down a mortgage for their first home in 2022 were self-builders, mostly rural, often building on their own land.
Wow.
It’s mad how people become fixtures in the media by complaining and end up twisting everything into a complaint. These are experts whining about too many apartments and not enough suburban sprawl.
Everything is dystopian it can’t just be bad urban planning and poor policy.
Headline is juicy and touches on something that I’ve been saying for a while but they don’t even remotely go as far as I’d go on the topic. The dystopian one-hour cities are like Citywest, where they are still piling on more houses without any regard for infrastructure or facilities to support it. They built a new school and that’s it. Nearest pub is an hour walk from the centre of the most of the development, there are no soccer fields or churches or garda stations and by the end of the current wave of housing to be completed will have the population of Carlow.
Way way to much one off housing. Such bad town planning in that you’ve these sparsely populated areas trying to drag services out to no where.
Reminds me of a farmer complaining that the council wouldn’t give a local needs permission for his son on the aran Islands. So many houses empty 6-9 months of the year with ugly houses dotted along the landscape.