Angela from Housing

'Angela from housing' tells me everything I need to know about your capacity for analytical thought. Misogynistic twaddle.

According to a recent letter to the Guardian...

'...developers already have planning consent for more than one million homes. These unused permissions not only represent a missed opportunity; they are an obstacle to the allocation of other land in the local plan. If the Government wants to see some building, then it should make some minor changes to planning law.
Make all consents lapse after five years without automatic right of renewal...'

Perhaps that would be a start?

Yes LL are reducing, this is because we've had arguments and pushing for more regulation of a market of private rentals without the back up of social rentals to even things out

You'll see if you read my post properly that the priority in my view is to build huge swathes of social housing. I believe there is room for private rentals, there should not, not everyone wants to buy and thats ok, but the market has been skewed by the absence of social housing options.

There do need to be regulations around market rents, it should not be that someone needs a guarantor to rent a property, not everyone has someone who can do this yet they are being denied housing because of that

Their tweets baying for her blood haven't aged well. But there again none of their tweets have aged well eg WFA, farming, tax rises etc

Haven't read the thread but with regards to planning permission, in my local area, over the past decade many acres of greenfields with woodlands have been granted planning permission for 2,500+ houses merely because the Local Council didn't get their Local Plan produced in a timely manner. The result being no challenges could be made as the speculator/developers would win at Inquiry.

And the land with planning permission was landbanked and only developed in small parts when there was enough of a market to sell at inflated prices to. With the final permissions being granted with a greatly reduced affordable/social housing % due to the usual developer excuse of it being financially unviable to build more than 10% in total.

Since the election of the new government, suddenly all the developers sprung into action and started on their developments. I think they were spooked into action worried about compulsory purchase.

For me, the interesting thing is that it appears the developers aren't singing from the same song sheet, just banging up their houses as fast as they can. When each developer's 1st phase is ready to market, I'm not entirely sure who they plan to sell them to as there's only so many people who wish to and can relocate to this part of the SW as most locals can't afford to buy them, not even the so-called 'affordable' ones..

At least Truss had the grace to resign! Labour seem to think they are beyond reproach, it's astounding.

We do not have a long history of classist or misogynistic names.

Obviously he won't be repeating that and is selling up. Ditto several other people I know.

Good. Combine that with Rayner building houses and maybe prices will drop and people will be able to afford HOMES once again.

And yes, I lived through negative equity - and was grateful to be paying less than renting and to have a SECURE HOME. The bit I was saving on rent went into savings so I could cover the equity gap if needed.

So many things in this country make NO sense. My parents are selling their current home and very much wanted to build a home. They didn’t want to build a McMansion but a tasteful home which was in keeping with the local surroundings. Even with a budget of £900k they settled against the idea as it was just too big of an uphill battle and too risky. Spent about £25k on consultation fees and surveyors and the like.

No common sense.

However horrible or denigrating nick names for government ministers is nothing new, its not misogyny, nor should it be reduced. We have a long long political history of satire and sarcasm about those in power, going right back to when the printing press made this more available to the public

This is what I was thinking. Agreed!

Political satire seems needed - if you don’t laugh you’ll cry.

tis government is atrocious, even worse the last one.

So the gov in power since July ( just over 6 months) is worse than the shit show of Truss, Sunak and Boris and May?

BOLLOCKS.

Im keen to see vast vast building of social housing properties, then regulations around private market rents and the use of guarantors to be phased out. These are real sticking blocks to people finding private rentals.

You do realise LL's are getting out in droves? Or haven't you noticed the massive increase in homelessness? Having a guarantor is one of the only avenues left for LL's to have a minuscule chance of recouping their money or getting bad tenants out.

Use your brain - what do you think bringing in even more arbitrary rules will achieve? As others have pointed out, with the plans to bring in much stricter EPC rules there will be barely any LL's left as it is. Spending £30K on insulating a house isn't possible for most small time LL's. Especially if you are not allowed to increase the rent to recoup your costs added to having a long and costly journey to get your property back when your tenants stop paying rent.

My db has just had to spend almost £10K getting his house back in order after the tenants left. It was wrecked. They lived there for a year paying £1000pcm. You do the figures. Obviously he won't be repeating that and is selling up. Ditto several other people I know.

It isn't worth it for smaller LL's any more, hence they are all getting out (this isn't something that's going to happen - it's happening and set to get worse).

It's just an excuse.

I was working on some local newspapers from the 70s and 80s once and every one had a letter from someone saying "why are we building houses? Stop immigration instead!" That was a period when immigration dropped from around 70,000 to 50,000 a year.

That was the point most "career" politicians do not have the experience and life skills for the roles they are given regardless of party,

Would you like an inexperienced plumber, electrcian or doctor working for you?

Unfortunately people seem to vote for their politician based on what they say not what they are qualified for, talk and pledges are not legally binding...

She's set herself up to fail with her lack of knowledge of the construction industry. Starmer will sit back and enjoy her humiliation.

30p - refers to something specific he said
Tarzan - hardly unflattering
Two Jags - takes the piss out of the cars
Called me Dave - something specific he said

...from Accounts
...from Housing

Both designed to reduce the women concerned to stereotypical, frequently low paid female employment.

Yes but so many people complaining about immigration.

So you are comfortable with misogyny and classism.
Got to keep those working class women in their place?

Are you kidding me the biggest lie was Labour saying they were going to build more then the Conservatives did and blah blah blah... there has not been one piece of land that can fit a toe nail into that they haven't build on near where I live, for years, blocks , and blocks of small flats, or houses no extra doctors , no extra schools. Just 1000s of flats, who exactly are all these 1000000 that need housing and will the government accept we don't need any more houses we need less ppl.

I thought if I worked hard and saved my money I could have a little house with a scrap of garden and some peace and quiet. I don’t ask for much, just some peace and space and natural beauty.

Funnily enough, younger people would also like the chance to have a secure home. Are they supposed to sacrifice that dream so you can look at a field?

Presumably the nice little house you imagined was also a field once?

I prefer Angela from accounts.

Absolutely horrific

Plus the MP for Dover not knowing or understanding Dover's significance as a major port!!!!

But you know, we mustnt call people names

Fair comments. However you can be taught to lay bricks competently (if slowly) in 6 months. Most other trades can be done under the eye of an experienced supervisor. Houses can also be made pre-fab and only finished on site.
Up the wages on the building trade and make people employees, not pseudo self employed, introduce more colleges and Skillcenters to learn the trade, etc.
It can be done, but it won’t be.

Because she is out of her depth.

It's part of a deliberate strategy.

Anything any government even remotely left-wing does is pulled apart - "haven't solved fourteen years worth of problems in eight months. Terrible....."

Then you elect (or don't elect) President Musk to rip apart the whole government, remove data protection, financial regulation, decimate health, universities, scientific research, workers rights, all with the aim of making super-rich people even richer.