Labour wants to build huge amounts of new houses

[RudsyFarmer]

I’ve just been listening to it being discussed in the radio. The conservatives are not building enough to support the growing population.

i completely understand the need for millions of new homes but man I feel so sad for the loss of green space. Is it just me being ridiculous? Make me feel better about it as in my local area there is just continuous new housing every here. I can’t imagine that quadrupling year on. 900 houses in the next village alone. 5,000 homes have created a new town a few miles away. I want my kids to be able to live in a house but also want them to see the odd field.

I hope this is sarcasm but if not, you need to stop reading shit papers and listening to the most corrupt lying government in living history.

Millions of houses without roads, GPs, dentists, hospitals, schools, nurseries. No millions of jobs either.

Plenty of brownfield sites around. There is a need to get people back into cities so these should be used

You're being hyperbolic. Nobody intends on building millions of houses on green belt land but Labour are also rightly concerned that people are spending 50/60% of their earnings on rent.

Good. It’s desperately needed. Less than 9% of the UK is developed land.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/land-use-in-england-2022/land-use-statistics-england-2022#:~:text=1.-,Main%20points,Residential%20gardens'%20(4.9%25).

Have you tried looking for housing recently? Have you experienced homelessness? Have you lived in a tent because you can't find a rental property? Have you seen the dozens of people who apply for each rental property in some areas? We need more homes. For a so called civilised country our housing situation is atrocious. It's a shameful situation that needs to change.

The new houses are not going to be affordable, and it’s not going to regulate the market. Nothing will.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/fragmentation-pressure-and-population-density

Where?

The conservatives are not building enough to support the growing population.

Really? There's huge numbers gone and going up around here. I'm mystified where all the people are coming from, where they will work and send their kids to school etc.
And its all greenfield sites - estates with sad names of what used to be there. Hayfield close, The Paddocks etc etc.
Not sure this is 'the conservatives' doing, it's a labour council, who actually decides?

I hope you know how ridiculous that sounds.

New homes don't have to be built on green land. There are loads of empty brownfield sites which have been abandoned by the businesses that used to be there but aren't being developed. In my area, a new GP practice was built in 2013 to replace (100yards down the road)"the ugly post-war prefab "health centre" that used to serve the area. It has taken 10 years for work to even start on developing the old site into new housing which will accommodate several families. The government has to intervene in property building because without such intervention, property developers will act solely in their own interests which means keeping supply artificially low and well below demand in order to ensure prices stay high.

There are many thousands of flats being built, anywhere you look there is a handkerchief of land being built on.

Just awful

I thought we were meant to be improving our carbon footprint but all this concrete isn't going to help

We’ve just recently had a landslide overturn of the previous Conservative council here, can’t remember a time before them tbh. Labour, Green and Lib Dems all winning swathes of seats largely due to the fact they promised a halt to the out of control building of houses and the tens of thousands of houses in the local plan for the upcoming 7-10 years. None of which included any infrastructure whatsoever. Not to mention the deeply unpopular 15 minute city (with accompanying bypass) that was beloved of the previous Conservative council leader. So it will be interesting to see how this plays out now that the Labour Party have outlined this as a policy…

It’s not just the concrete. It’s the use of water and electricity.

Where is that coming from?

Here's the conservatives wanting to build a load. . Yes, it's a hideously expensive high rent area so there is a need, just hope it's not designed by shoddy dementors as Trumpington appears to have been.

Cambridge to become Europe’s Silicon Valley — with 250,000 extra homes

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d0b8bd36-1d98-11ee-a1d2-5f915afc01a5?shareToken=7cf7cd3d2242365aa0626f9aa67166d44_

Developers build on Greenfield sites because it's cheaper.
No disused buildings to remove
No contaminated land to clear up
Less annoying neighbouring uses to contend with

There are plenty of houses in this country. Many stand empty. Many are second homes. Many are just too expensive.

So true and the extra sewage

We were watching country file and they were going on about how bad livestock farming is and I'm thinking it's better than the houses the authorities probably want the land for?

Yep! Not enough immigration to prop up the falling population. A lot of older people and not enough young people paying taxes to keep them in pensions and hip replacements.

There has got to be another way.

I’d like to think they’ll build primarily on brownfield sites. But I agree with you it’s so sad to see houses built on green space.

New houses are not affordable for those on low income. Unless on benefits and getting rent paid for you.
The rents and council tax for new builds is ridiculous.

They should start with all the empty derelict buildings!