Is there a correlation between the need to build houses on green belt land and the influx of immigrants?

Answer 1

I was under the impression that most imigrants were moved into areas that no national wanted to live in and green belt land often nets the local council a fat profit when developed

Answer 2

Gosh! You really think there might be some sort of correlation between several million extra people coming into the UK and the sudden need for several hundred thousand new houses?
Hmm, let me see. All these extra people will need water won't they? And sewage treatment works, and schools, and hospitals, and roads to drive their newly acquired cars, and police stations, and fire stations and shops and railways and power plants and every other bloody part of the social infrastructure.
Which we currently don't have and therefore will have to build.
Anybody who denies it is either a liar or so moronically retarded that they should be locked up for their own safety!
Thank you for asking this question.

Answer 3

No, our own population growth has accounted for that. The bigger issue is the growth of cities, consolidated population areas that spill over onto outlying land. The government have rightly (for once) put an emphasis on building over 'brownfield' (i.e. land previously built on) to reduce the amount of green belt land swalled up by development. The way we're going we'll be living in the city of Britain by 2100. Thank God I won't be here.

Answer 4

Do you suppose that Immigrants are buying new houses in green belt areas?
Isn't it more likely that richer people want the "rural idyll", without being TOO far away from all the services of the big city?

Answer 5

The need to build houses is influenced by the number of people needing housing so obviously the number of incomers is connected with this,more people=more houses,also if the number of immigrants are here to fill jobs how come we have unemployment,if figures are to believed they are as many migrant(workers )as they are registered unemployed,so if every native had a job they would be no need for migrants

Answer 6

yes and no. immigrants go over to wherever. move into the inner city, the landlords who rent the houses on the social to the local housing association make an absolute killing. they buy up all available greenbelt land build so called executive dwellings suitable for urban professionals. they sell up in the inner city at a premium to the landlords who rent to the associations immigrants move in and the cycle continues. its down to greedy landlords, greedy developers and shrewd house movers.

Answer 7

There is if you think immigrants can all afford to live in £250,000 toy-town executive homes in Berkshire and commute into London to do their £3.50 an hour office cleaning jobs.

Answer 8

No it's not the immigrants who move into these new houses.

Answer 9

90 per cent of new houses in edinburgh are bought by immigrants

Answer 10

The correlation will increase, because of this unforgiveable act of insanity.