Now They Are Bullying Local Authorities.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/government-demands-immediate-mandatory-housing-plans-from-councils-to-build-1-5m-homes-13271785

They can't just click their fingers and magic up thousands of houses.

[davebro3]

//I`ve always thought the should be a minimum size for garages so you can get even an average car off the road.//

Most new builds I see have off-road parking for a couple of cars. Even if folks have a garage most rarely put their car in it - it's just storage space.

[New Judge]

"Even if folks have a garage most rarely put their car in it - it's just storage space."

Yes it's strange.

The UK must be one of the few places where householders keep two hundred quid's worth of old furniture safe and secure in their garage whilst their brand new £30k motor sits out in the street.

[ToraToraTora]

the problem is that most cars wont fit in a garage anyway.

[New Judge]

“Unfortunately, the housing behemoths will be given carte blanche to throw up their 'executive homes' and wriggle out of their obligations to provide affordable housing.”

The government does not build houses – housebuilders do. Its pledge to build 1.5m houses is foolish for two reason: firstly it is most unlikely to be achieved for many reasons  but most importantly it is not under their control and it is unwise to make such a promise.

Housebuilders will only build what they can sell and they are not in the business of providing housing at below market value. The government has seen fit to allow far too many people to settle in this country – and seem intent on continuing to do so – so there is no reason why housebuilders should tackle the problem that should obviously have been foreseen.

They meet their (IMO unjustified) obligations to provide affordable housing in their developments but only insofar as they are compelled to do so with the alternative of building no houses at all or making hefty payments to local authorities. 

The government can relax planning regulations all it likes but if housebuilders do not see a profit in a development they will not undertake it. Over 90% of the growth in housing requirements in the next 10-15 years will be as a direct result of immigration. The people arriving here, in the main, will not be able to afford to rent or buy property at market rates in the places they want to settle.

The majority of the demand will be for “affordable” housing in large towns and cities, not for five bedroomed “executive” homes out in the countryside. Developers are not going to meet that demand because those who will want it cannot afford it.

If the government wants to provide 300,000 homes each year for people who cannot afford them they will have to rely on somebody other than the housebuilders. Either that or, since nobody else builds houses in any quantity, they will have to pay the housebuilders the going rate to undertake the task for them. Since the new Chancellor has demonstrated that the country has no spare cash to lavish on such luxuries (to the extent that many farmers may be forced to sell their land to meet the new death duties recently imposed) I don’t see how that’s going to happen.

[youngmafbog]

And, as usual, all the infrastructure to support these  new homes is ignored, things like Water, sewage,gas,electricity,roads,hospitals,GP's,schools, shops.  So may estates are being fliung up without the thought to how they will live.  Plue slinging houses up where there is no work locally is rediculous and in addition to that as teens wont have anything to do I suspect many will become Scumbag Acres pretty fast.

And where are the builders ll coming from?  More immigration no doubt!!

[youngmafbog]

//providing affordable housing within existing towns and cities.//

Having tried to do this there are a couple of biggish problems.

1) No land for new builds, only unsuitable or often contaminated is available.

2) If you are refurbing (Properly as we did) then costs of skips are now astronomical plus the list of things you can put in is now daft.  Plus separating out plasterboard into its wn skip is an expensive joke.

3) Refurb you have to pay VAT, not new build.  Why?

4) Too many grasping councils no longer give you tie to do the rebuild without paying council tax - even when clealry no one can live there (No Kitch/bog etc).

It could be done but Government needs to stop grasping.

 

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps pound shop barbie and Rachel from accounts can get their trowels out.

[gulliver1]

13.36. What the hell are you on TTT.

[newmodarmy]

//13.36. What the hell are you on TTT.//

Oh, the irony. It wasn't TTT who posted, which begs the question about what you are on, gulliver1.

[gulliver1]

NMA 18.37 It was TTT who posted ,,,What the hell are you on then NMA,???? The same as TTT .Obviously.

[newmodarmy]

I'll leave you to your peurile games gulliver. 

[davebro3]

A thought occurred to me - the building industry say they need 10s of thousands more tradesmen to fulfil Rayner's house building promise (Labour say they have plans to provide these🤣). What happens to all these extra construction workers when the 5 year building boom is over? 🙄

[theshedman]

As many of these will have to come from overseas as we don't have enough construction workers of our own.  The big building companies have already told the government this.  Labour will let them stay and claim benefits.