To think at some point there will be no green spaces left in the UK

[SoBloodyFrustrated]

I have just read this..

Dartmoor National Park have asked Cavanna Homes to prepare a Development Brief for this Allocated site, which lies on the fringe of the village with great views to the Tor.

Dartmoor is so bloody lovely, how long before all our green spaces are taken due to new builds?

Financeprincess There is a difference between Nimbyism and concern for the environment. If there's no thought for proper planning and flood defences etc. No one's home will be worth anything because we'll all be underwater.

Entirely agree with both your recent posts above, beta.

Mine should have read Errol AND Morebeta btw.

One thing about new builds is that some of them are bloody ugly. I can understand why some villages complain when a development is planned nearby. I think if they put more thought into the design of these things they would be welcomed.

traininthedistance I'd certainly be in favour of increasing inheritance tax, out of your suggestions, and also on increasing tax at source on large financial gifts. So many large deposits or outright buys of house purchases are financed by parental gift or inheritance, it drives the market up and keeps it artificially inflated. Yet I can bet you the same people who complain about house price rises in this country are the ones who would resist IHT rises because they want to give their offspring a leg up the property ladder.

I also think it de-incentivises the young and gifted - whats the point of working hard if all you'll ever achieve after 10 years is a one bedroom flat.

My other policy suggestion would be to make all 25% of all new builds self builds.

The planning system really is dire in this country. My BIL is a planner - he has a third in his degree subject and knows very little about building regulations. Because "that's not his job" - but it has such a link to pp!

And all these new build 4 bedroom detached houses in postage stamp gardens - people are encouraged to think they are in poverty if they don't have one. I remember buying a house in a popular, expensive village, 7 years ago for the princely sum of £20,500. It had no floors - its floor beams were damp and had been removed, prior to replacement. Cost about £8000 to do up. Lovely 2 bed semi with large garden.

Yet the week we bought it, a young couple we had seen viewing it at the same time as us and screwing their noses up, were interviewed in the local newspaper, standing outside a new build detached house, under the headline "Young couple cannot afford to buy in their home village". They were both 23.

IMO the power for new builds ought to be back in the councils' hands and they should be building council houses\flats properly . Not giving all the huge development companies like Wates the money and power.

It's down to profits all the time with the above companies so that's why they won't build with the environment in mind "It's too expensive".