With regards to green policies such as keeping green spaces and can it go on forever and be practical with regards to issues such as waste management and water supplies? Are they looking at the whole picture? Also with land so scarce and at a premium- due to excessive demand- will these new homes really be affordable housing?
2007-12-01 22:08:47 · 9 answers · asked by brainlady 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Loads of good answers here- thanks everybody.
2007-12-02 01:41:44 · update #1
Where I live in Hillingdon, we are having new homes go up all over the place - and there have been demonstrations due to the ill thought out placement of the new homes which are often multiple occupancy.
Unfortunately the local authority are automatically over ruled by Government.
We have had several houses, pubs, garages,churches etc knocked down to build blocks of flats.
The roads are more and more jammed, parking is impossible and house prices are going up up and up again...
Green - it is not!
2007-12-01 22:23:06 · answer #1 · answered by Dee L 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that we do need more houses because we are going through the phase of smaller sized families.
However the labour party's house building programme is continuing in the way that Herbert Morrison set it up when he was leader of the London County Council. They will look at marginal rural constituencies where they could gain control if they built a large rented housing estate in its centre. They fail to look at spare land within their own constituency, because electorally they already hold that area. As any Londoner knows there are large sites within Greater London, both undeveloped and unused brownfield sites, where housing could be built, and in those places the schools, hospitals, dentists, utility services, shops are already available. Watch where red Ken sets his beady eye if Boris is not elected next May.
2007-12-01 23:35:25 · answer #2 · answered by clovernut 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A better housing policy would be to reduce the amount of holiday home owners who only use them a couple a weeks a year and people owning houses for "buy to let". Theres not a shortage of houses its just so many are for rent and not sale. Also a better management of immigration would help.
2007-12-01 22:15:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If we got a grip on and controlled the immigration numbers, there wouldn't be such a huge need.
2007-12-01 22:24:32 · answer #4 · answered by The Saint 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
which is why when this tiny island is bursting at the seams & the vast land in Scotland has been all used up too, it'll be all no-go & rife with crime - but from a governmental point of view their coffers will be extremely full! Along with the property developers'of course etc etc
2007-12-01 22:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by seetheway49 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, building more homes in the UK is realistic according to the labour. Labour Party is the best in UK but I missed Tony Blair, he is a very good, professional politician.
2007-12-02 02:39:20 · answer #6 · answered by polyttex 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
we can't afford schools, prisons and hospitals for the people that are already here how are we going to cope in 10 years times. Somethings got to change soon.
2007-12-01 22:34:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It has to be. We need more houses. They should be built on brown field sites to protect the green areas
2007-12-01 22:19:25 · answer #8 · answered by SSS 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who cares, all new homes will go to immigrants anyway.
2007-12-01 22:12:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋