Two New Garden Cities For Southern England ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25694465

Who thinks it a good idea to build two new cities to solve Britain's housing crisis ? And why are they both in the south....don't we have housing shortages elsewhere in Britain ?

[naomi24]

Not a bad idea. Elsewhere is welcome to them.

If Mr Cameron said two years ago that he supported the scheme, I fail to understand Mr Farron's accusation that plans have been suppressed.

[boxtops]

I don't count those locations as south - that's Midlands to us.

[bibblebub]

the report was commissioned following Cameron's speech 2 years ago

[mikey4444]

Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the Midlands ?

[naomi24]

I wouldn't have said so.

[grumpy01]

Probably so they can monitor the influx of immigrants from Europe and elsewhere more easily.

[douglas9401]

It's a great idea.
They're both in the south so that natives don't have to move to Scotland then spend all their time moaning about 'how cold and wet it is up here' and standing for election to local councils so they can bring their nippy, whiny southern attitudes to us reasonably content locals.
Come on Dave, get building.

[Gromit]

New Karachi and New Warsaw will be built in the south because that is where the housing shortage is most acute.

However, if privately owned empty properties were brought back onto the market, they would only have to build one.

Obviously building two whole towns will require hundreds and thousands of East Europeans to come and do the work.

[VHG]

If we sent back all the illegal immigrants we would not need to build any new towns in this over crowded country.

[mushroom25]

//Obviously building two whole towns will require hundreds and thousands of East Europeans to come and do the work. //

yes, and they'll all be on "pay between assignment" contracts and thus on sub-minimum wage - the builders will say they can't afford to employ anyone on better terms.

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/wales/work_w/work_rights_at_work_e/work_agency_workers_e/pay_between_assignment_contracts.htm

[jake-the-peg]

Well living in the Bucks Oxfordshire border I still think it's a reasonably good idea.

You have to build where there's employment or you'll end up with ghost towns.

I have to say though that these are Tory heartlands and the chances off the Government giving the green light to this on the run up to a general election are pretty non-existant

[sandyRoe]

Will the plans for the high speed railway line be shunted into the sidings until after that election?

[FredPuli43]

The price of houses in the South, compared to that in the North, suggests that the greater shortage is in southern counties. In Cambridge, for example, an ordinary "two up two down" terraced house fetches £385,000 or more. But that's ordinary: a bow fronted, extended, 3 bed, terrace house fetches over £1 million.

[emmie]

let us not have more cities in the South, we are already swamped, and it doesn't help that north of the border is seen as the back of beyond, housing, business should be looking at other place than here, we are losing so much land, one that is or has been for agriculture, produce more food down here, and let the housing be some where else for a change.

[emmie]

i want to live in England, nor new Karachi or New Delhi, we get more than our fair share, let us say the brunt of this mad immigration scheme.

[mikey4444]

I have re-read the link above and I can find no mention that these two NewTowns are being built for foreigners, nor that its expected that the majority of residents will be immigrants, so I am somewhat puzzled why this post has so quickly turned into a xenophobic rant ? Why do some here on AB have to turn every post into a rant against immigrants ?

[FredPuli43]

ONS estimate for May 2011 : 1,416 million originating from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, 643, 000 from Poland are living in the UK (population 54 million)

Could be you'll be living in New Warsaw or New Gdansk, emmie ! Is it just the brown skinned that worry you, or those who, largely, are Muslims ?

[mikey4444]

In the 2011 census, only 4.8% of people gave Islam as their religion, and the overwhelming majority residents in Britain were White ( 86%)

Also, Poles represented less than 1% of the total population of Britain, which is estimated as 63,230,000. Still can't see why these two new towns, if they are built, could be called New Karachi or New Delhi, or New Warsaw ?