amsterdam
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Yes, I think so. Did you know that the percentage of land in the UK which has been built on is 11%. That's right - eleven percent. We could easily afford another one or two percent.
There has always been a housing shortage in this country, for many different reasons. Current reasons: we all want more individual space, and divorce. Two doors down from me lives a single man in a three bedroomed house, he keeps a bedroom each for his children when they stay at weekends. No doubt his ex also has a 3 bedroomed house. Multiply that by the number of divorces.... |
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scottish football ....nuff said
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it wouldnt solve jack before they are built the same landlords snap up another 20 -30 of them.....
the only way to solve it wd be building more council housing.... |
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Lisa C
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I think they should stop building apartments that no one wants and build more family houses. i live in leeds and they are throwing apartments up everywhere because in theory there are more units per plot and they can get more money but they are constantly for sale and no one wants them cos they're tiny! |
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marie
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i was a board member for a local housing association for fourteen years and let tell you that the government had a lot to say in housing demands and supplies . i always questioned what was needed for disabled and it seems they have a standartd size issued by the housing authourities.and i moved into mine 7 years ago and i now need to use my wheelchair indoors . i requested an extention to have an extention built on but could not get a grant from the local council for this i had to get private funding for this.
and they always get a proportion of what ever is built inevery private housing developement for social housing.
however their are never enough built for the poorer waged people |
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Hat-A-Tat-Tat!!
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we will gradually HAVE to open up green belt land..there is no choice..we are running out of space. if we cant build out...we have to build up in the air - yuk!! |
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Nexus6
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It depends where they would be built. The town I live in has been completely built up - the council has let developers build on all the land originally designated as greenbelt, the traffic problems are horrendous and any community spirit there was has long since vanished. The one remaining factory that employed thouands was closed and is now a massive housing estate.
I accept more housing needs to be built and that house prices are ridiculously expensive - but when you live in a town that has been largely screwed up by over-development you wonder why there are any housing problems at all - unless it's only here that all the green has been replaced by brick. |
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TAFF
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Anything that would get the house prices down would be most welcome |
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beverley.newman1@btinternet.com
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There should be no more new homes built until the present stock of homes for sale are sold.There are also many thousands of homes standing empty which could be compulsorally purchased and used for training building trades for young school leavers/re trainers which could then be rented out to young families etc.There are also many elderly people still hanging onto 3 bed council houses when they could be moved into smaller and quieter houses so that the families get the large ones.There are many ways to cure the housding problems combined with training as above so councils take note! |
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Jason D
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We should not only allow more houses to be built but we must also ensure that all new housing is NOT made available to property developers. As a nation we need to start viewing property as homes to which our hard working citizens are entitled to, rather than further investment opportunities for those lucky enough to have done so well out of the property boom!
Current house prices are an absolute disgrace, while I'm selfishly thinking about myself I know there to be an increasing number of people in my situation. Britain has now become impossible for average working people to own homes and I for one will have to leave unless things change! It is very sad that because such high numbers of British people are so very comfortable now, the pleas of the less fortunate are unlikely to ever be taken seriously. Gordon Brown must think we're all in home heaven!! Or is it just that he doesn't give a damn!? |
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Knownow't
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Of course, but the problem is for some reason everyone wants to live in the South East.....If there wasn't such snobbery in England, then houses could be built all over the Country, but ask someone to move North and you will have a riot....Not that there isn't a housing shortage in the North, but what encouragement is there for large builders to build in the North, when they can sell them for double the price in the South.... |
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georgiafudge
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yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes god yes!!!
There are people that arehomeless if you have not realised |
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spearandjackson
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There is a need for a major review of the housing market. More houses must be built alongside ways of bringing empty houses into use. If not then there will only be the double whammy of a boom and bust housing market and increasing inequality across generations. What is more difficult is the need to make us all shift our expectations of our houses being a speculative investment rather than a social investment in a home |
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Adam F
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I think we should. House prices are a terrible worry for someone like myself. Aged 25 in full time graduate employment and I cant afford a house. I feel that somewhere along the line people like me have lost there right to buy a house. And I think it is a right. Renting only helps people who have plenty of money get more. At the end of the day how can the country be in such a state that well educated hard working people cant afford to buy. Its ridiculous |
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Sarah H
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Nope, they should redevelope the ones that are up instead of leaving area after area looking like a bomb has hit it!!!
The more important thing is that the govt should help first timers instead of us all having to be in dept to our eyeballs just to get a home! |
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Part Time Cynic
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Loads of private develpoments are being built. So i take it you are talking of social housing? |
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Bristol_Gal
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I can't understand why they don't build high rise flats anymore.
I lived in a 14 storey block a few years ago and loved it. |
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wantoknow
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No way! Stop immigration and ban so called second homes - there we are three million properties available for us! |
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Sean F
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House prices are obscene in this country but the country is so brutally overcrowded already building large numbers of house will destroy what little wild nature we have. Where I live in Surrey they are building on every scrap of recently debarred Green Belt land and it is destroying the views and quality of the North Downs. I now have to drive all the way down to the Sussex border to get some fresh air so there are two sides to this. |
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QueenBee
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No more houses please!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why is it that the houses built in the 30's/40's for example are nice large airy rooms with gardens and driveways - hardly anyone had cars then! Now they are poky little shoeboxes who qualify as 'detached' because next doors outer wall is a whole 6 inches away. They have half a driveway (if any) and ceilings about 5'6" high. There are also LOADS of letting and sale boards up around the new estates where blocks of flats (oh I'm sorry - luxury apartments) are being built by their hundreds. Nobody wants to live in them - why pay £140k - £250k for a 1 bedroom flat when you can buy a house for the same sort of price? It's just greed on the developers part isn't it! Also, the new flats are, granted, nicely landscaped but imagine in a good few years time.......they might end up just the same as the old city centre towers - minging and mostly full of dole-bludging mingers! |
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