Browns housing plans

[Bagsy]

Brown quote ''In total, three million new homes would be built by 2020 - up 250,000 from the previous plan''

 

It will be interesting to see where these will be built, where we will get the labour to build them and even more interesting to see who will get them. I fear for the countryside and the country in general. Too late me thinks.

 

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[08shooter]

typical build them in the towns and keep the countryside that is left a lot of houses built near me recently and now the townies that moved into them tell the farmers when they can and can t spread slurry. i fear for my shooting the most :unsure:

[dazza]

It's the same round here :unsure:

[baikal boy]

ive posted on this subject before and ile say it again

keep um were they am. the majority of them cause

nothing but agro for the rural community they bring

nothing with them . there kids even the ones that are

born here are exactly the same in attitude because

of being uneducated in our ways which gives a poor future

for the countryside in its own wright. and then our landscape

is taken up by what i think awful and poorly designed houses

over the years of have seen our little bit of heaven starting

to get all the more closer to suburbia its a while off yet

but you can see were its all going.at the moment its looking bleak.

 

 

paddy.

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I wonder when, in this grand plan, Mr Brown considers using the million or so derelict homes already available to him?

 

I would appear, on face value, cheaper to convert/renovate/restore/repair existing housing BUT NO, I was wrong!

 

If you don't build it new there is no awarding of contracts to build (tax breaks), preferred supplier status, planning permission or any other number of HIGHLY LUCRATIVE awards to be made.

 

GOD I HATE THIS COUNTRY.

[Wookie]

Also, those empty houses are in areas where no one wants to live - North of the Watford Gap in most cases. More and more people want to live in the south east/London, so that's where the homes have to be built. I'm pretty certain that they will mostly be flats though.

 

It's all **** anyway. Our way of life has gone for good already, we just don't know it yet.

[al4x]

I wonder when, in this grand plan, Mr Brown considers using the million or so derelict homes already available to him?

 

I would appear, on face value, cheaper to convert/renovate/restore/repair existing housing BUT NO, I was wrong!

 

If you don't build it new there is no awarding of contracts to build (tax breaks), preferred supplier status, planning permission or any other number of HIGHLY LUCRATIVE awards to be made.

 

GOD I HATE THIS COUNTRY.

 

 

Exactly, new build you can claim the VAT back which makes a big difference renovation you can't. Theres 17.5% of a reason to build new. The bloke is a total idiot and a few things need sorting out rather than building everywhere.

[monkeyjaimz]

I overheard a conversation between 2 farmers over this and similar topics earlier today, boiled down the conclusion was thus:

Blair has killed the country, and now browns going to bury it :unsure:

[Pedro]

ive posted on this subject before and ile say it again

keep um were they am. the majority of them cause

nothing but agro for the rural community they bring

nothing with them . there kids even the ones that are

born here are exactly the same in attitude because

of being uneducated in our ways which gives a poor future

for the countryside in its own wright. and then our landscape

is taken up by what i think awful and poorly designed houses

over the years of have seen our little bit of heaven starting

to get all the more closer to suburbia its a while off yet

but you can see were its all going.at the moment its looking bleak.

 

 

paddy.

That's so true - even I have to say with my own kids :unsure: I've repeatedly taken them out with me, but they've shown little interest in the countryside, (and their Grandma's got a farm!), and would rather sit on this thing talking banal nonsense to their mates.

 

I hate to say it, but I don't think technology has helped in this at all, (sorry, off thread).

 

BTW, Brown is causing mayhem at No10 with the hours he's working, nobody can keep up with the bloke If you say one thing for the bloke - he's a grafter.

 

P.

[Lord Geordie]

I wonder when, in this grand plan, Mr Brown considers using the million or so derelict homes already available to him?

 

I would appear, on face value, cheaper to convert/renovate/restore/repair existing housing BUT NO, I was wrong!

 

If you don't build it new there is no awarding of contracts to build (tax breaks), preferred supplier status, planning permission or any other number of HIGHLY LUCRATIVE awards to be made.

 

GOD I HATE THIS COUNTRY.

 

 

 

here here!

 

There are a great many THOUSANDS of homes in the NE here that seem to get demolished every year or so and lately 3 areas have had housing demolished.

 

My Mum n dad were bought out of THEIR home of 35+ years under a compulsary purchase order and were given a **** £50.000 for their 3 bedroom home and THEN had to start again with a MORTGAGE for the second time.

 

The same house in another area (exactly the same house) was over £120.000 and the ONLY reason the estate they lived on was so bad was the council moved the undesirable element into the estate after demolishing other estates and sending the ratbags into OTHER housing estates which in turn degrades the others!

 

The houses were a VERY good size and in their place they put up shoeboxes with postage stamp gardens and charge £220.000 per home the greedy ********

 

Not a bad turn about is it a £50.000 pay out to sell 2 houses built on the same land and rake in £440.000

 

I have been bought out of 2 of my homes already and NOW they may want the current one too. It never ceases to amaze me how the current housing is so called NOT up to standard when they spend millions previously RAISING these houses to what they claimed THEN was the current standard???

 

More and more tax payers money wasted to Brown can squeeze more and more council tax because the NEW houses are in higher tax brackets thats ALL i can see it is for. If it was simply because there is a shartage of housing then as Pin suggests SURELY they would be better off to revamp the old and it would also be a lot quicker!

 

LG

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Nice to see you back posting again martin!