When they eventually run out of land to build houses, what then???

Question

I'm particularly concerned with the current plan in the UK for thousands and thousands of new homes.

Answer 1

Since the this government advocate taking your garden to build on perhaps we could start off by building houses or better still tower blocks in their private gardens.You'd get a nice view over the Humber from a tower block in Prescott's garden. John wouldn't mind as he is so good natured.

Answer 2

If the Untied States would have to have 3 billion people before 30% of the arable land would be used up. The sierra club is a bunch of fanatics hellbent at times, and land rescriton polices don't just hurt the wealthy want to build bigger houses??? The working class is shoved out of housing market too by goverment stupidity too. UK needs more houses or else they will leave and go to Australia or America where housing and land is cheaper. The goverment probadly heading off exouds long term and opening up land to housing.

Answer 3

Please come to Southern California and spend 5 days driving in any direction. We are truly a sea of houses and cars, millions of them. Yes, it is still beautiful here and our weather is great. But, over the years there is not much open land left and California is a pretty big place. Our yards are postage stamp size because our land is so expensive. They have already built up all of the deserts and other less desireable areas. There's very little left for the wild life that once was abundant. At some point, we will run out of land it is inevitable.

Answer 4

I think its not so much the WHEN they run out of space but the WHY that really gets up the average UK person...........for instance if you are homeless [under certain conditions] you will get re housed by the government............BUT daily we have boat loads and plane loads of people arriving taking the few resources that we do have and maxing them out to the last enth...............with the policy of allowing every one to at some point buy these government houses [DONT think projects of the USA type here please] these are then taking off the renewable market.........the government has also privatised a lot of the local councils and basically tied their hands from building any more, so people wait and wait and wait some more for a house to become vacant WITH the added bonus of anyone dropping off the ferry or plane NOT speaking English with hundred weight of relatives getting to go in front of you in the waiting list.............

Answer 5

Hmm there was a s/f book about this. Fire service burned down housing estates and residents to make way for new tenants lol.
Seriously tho I am as concerned as you, I read in our local paper that nearly everyday our local council turns down plans from developers, to turn greenfield sites into homes. They offer all sorts of promises like 25% of homes will be allocated as council rentals etc. Makes me sick. All we can do is rely on the elected council to listen to us. My home town of Dunfermline agreed to a Motorola building a factory and 2000 homes to house the workers. Guess what? the factory never opened but the homes were built anyway. Mostly owned by commuters from Edinburgh, who have now pushed house prices beyond what most folk can afford. Oh and the houses were built funded by a corporation (Motorola).

Answer 6

Well Hong Kong and Japan are planning high rise residential towers in the hundreds of stories.
They plan to incorporate businesses and schools in the structures so people don't have to actually leave it on a daily basis.
I imagine something similar will eventually hit the UK, you can't build everyone a land based home.

Answer 7

We should never worry about the population just increasing and increasing. Nature has a way of preventing this.

unfortunately, it's called hatred And the human race will always manage to control it's own numbers.

They will never run out of land to build houses either. They just make them smaller, that's all. Look at Japan. Some of their mortgages take over 100 years to pay off, too.

Answer 8

Why? They are currently knocking down secondry schools which have loads of land - that will keep them occupied for a while

There is so much land that they cannot build on in the UK so I wouldn't worry too much

Answer 9

Reclaim land from the sea and call it 'seaworld'. Isn't somoene's airport built on the sea? Hongkong was it? Either that or the world will become like Logan's Run.

Answer 10

Haven't you ever seen the film Soylent Green, based on the book Make room. Make room, by Harry Harrison if my memory serves.