To be fed up with more houses

[Bloke23]

I understand the need for more houses currently in the UK, but the town I live in it has become redicouls, the thing that pisses me off is they never do anything with the roads, no new doctors surgerys, no new schools etc, we have 2400 homes just been built around the corner from us!

Our lovely rugby club has been sold off, they are building around 200 new homes on the grounds!
A house around the corner was sold off, knocked down and 3 houses have gone up in its place!

Sorry this is more of a rant

@GammaStingRay that was the only thing I latched on to too!! I couldn’t concentrate on the post as I really want to know whether it is slang? Or if OP thinks that is how it is spelt or said?????

Redicouls!! 🤣

The inner London borough that I've just moved out of has masses of new high rise blocks in the main town centre with thousands of new households, many buy-to-let. Near where I lived pubs, shops, garages, churches, church halls and factories were converted to flats. Every little space near bigger shops or along the railway line has been filled with flats. Brownfield sites are definitely being filled but the population density is huge and the roads and buses were already very busy. Many GPs and teachers don't want to work in the inner city even if there are schools and health centres. Where I live now in outer London the population density is less than half but the spaces are not being filled with flats. It's a nice place to live but surely new building should be spaced out equally.

Whilst I agree that it’s wrong to build so many houses without a proper infrastructure, local authorities are charged with providing a specific number of new houses within a time frame.

I live in a new house. At least, it was a new build when we moved five years ago and the whole development will be completed next year. There were plans for a GP surgery, but no GPS could be recruited. A primary school has been built for local residents and the develops contributed to the cost of a relief road to alleviate some of the traffic problems.

We’re lucky. There is a reasonable public transport system, with links to bigger towns and centres, as well as to the coast and countryside. There are shops within walking distance and supermarkets a few monutes drive away.

Where we used to live though, they are building more and more houses with no infrastructure at all. The only shop is a garage with shop, the buses are every 30 minutes if you’re lucky and you cannot get an appointment at the GP surgery.

I agree with you. Before planning is approved surely the local council must consider existing infrastructure and the pressure to be placed upon it? The planning authorities really are rubbish! It should be conditional on builders building huge estates to build new primary schools and or dr surgeries to support this (still a lack of full time gaps about though).

I totally agree. Especially when all the houses built tend to be £400k + how is this helping the housing crisis or people get on the ladder?

I have also worked in housing for a metropolitan borough council that has decent council flats sat empty, nothing wrong with them other than people want houses not flats.

Yes we have a homelessness issue but I don't always agree it is the same thing as the "housing crisis".

I also now work in the property industry and the politics and money associated with building are beyond belief hence why no one wants to build starter homes they just want to build the big houses on new land not repair old land. It's all controlled by upper middle class men building what they want to see.

GP surgeries are a separate issue all of their own as there is a nationwide shortage of GPs which can’t be fixed by building new surgeries.

The school thing is a bloody joke though.

Our local council have made it perfectly clear they didn’t want to build all these houses as the infrastructure isn’t there but government makes them. I don’t blame the council at all. Absolutely ridiculous that schools cannot be built in advance rather than waiting for a critical lack of places. Plus there seems to be no accountability for developers. They can promise everything and deliver nothing.

Totally agree with your post JazzyGG.

In some ways I do agree. What I find most irritating is that we face a lot of abuse for new houses being built on our land (we are farmers) yet we have absolutely no say in it. I think people think we have mattresses made of £50 notes and will say yes to everything being built. They do it whether we say yes or no. We'd really rather not lose the land and selfishly we'd rather not have hundreds of houses (and hundreds of inconsiderate people!) suddenly living around us.

@Bloke23 we are in the same town. It's not going to change. There are many reasons putting off more GPs in this area. This is why many surgeries have recently merged. The schools issue is partly complicated by government policy which at least one of the local MPs doesn't actually understand. It doesn't help that some decisions are made at County Level with little awareness of the area. This is compounded by local voters not knowing which branch is responsible for things so blaming the town council for things outside their control. There are usually spare seats on the various parish councils. This can be a way of having an impact and finding out what's going on. If you have time.