No excuses not to build 1.5m new homes, Rayner says.

[Cosmicblue]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d528g755qo

The deputy PM must have had the same maths teacher as Diane Abbott as the numbers seem to be implausible:

1) The maximum parliamentary term is 5 years - 365x5= 1825 days

2) So to build 1.5m homes that would mean that the house builders would need to complete 821.91 homes per day including weekends....🙃  (1.500,000/1825 days)

3) Is it just me or does that seem a tad unlikely?

 

 

[Raja Clavata]

Indeed it does. As it proved with the previous government who also apparently couldn’t do maths when it involved counting house builds.

[Dougy]

If i passed wind and caught the gas in my pants it would have more sense than the whole of Liebor brain cells put together. 

 

 

I will probably get sent down now for that comment. 

Oh dear never mind,at least it will save of heating bills. 

Edited 15 hours ago by Dougy

[Weihrauch17]

1 hour ago, Cosmicblue said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d528g755qo

The deputy PM must have had the same maths teacher as Diane Abbott as the numbers seem to be implausible:

1) The maximum parliamentary term is 5 years - 365x5= 1825 days

2) So to build 1.5m homes that would mean that the house builders would need to complete 821.91 homes per day including weekends....🙃  (1.500,000/1825 days)

3) Is it just me or does that seem a tad unlikely?

 

 

House building has been declining since they came in.  The Govt and Councils do not physically build houses and cannot dictate how many are built just like they can't force us to have an EV or Heat Pump.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce85ggj3640o

[39TDS]

Proposal to build 1.5million homes

Estimated net migration for that period is approx 2 million.

Doesn't take a lot to work out where that fails does it.

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, It will never happen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GrayA]

...and who is going to buy to be able to rent these "affordable" or council houses?

Housing Associations have no money, the funds they did have, are being used to upgrade their existing housing stock, Councils as we all know have no money either.... we also don't have the trades to build properties on this scale.

9 hours ago, Weihrauch17 said:

House building has been declining since they came in.  The Govt and Councils do not physically build houses and cannot dictate how many are built just like they can't force us to have an EV or Heat Pump.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce85ggj3640o

 Housing associations nor councils have the budgets to buy existing properties that have already been built for "affordable" housing, they are all too busy upgrading their existing stock ready for changes to EPCs.... 

Developers will build enough houses to keep demand high, thats how the market has been allowed to develop.

The 1m plus net migration under the Tories and now continued under Labour, ensures we have housing shortages built in for decades to come.

[JohnfromUK]

To build houses, you need;

1. The site
2. The materials
3. The infrastructure (for new sites but also infrastructure spare capacity for 'fill ins')
4. The workforce and equipment

The site can (albeit with political cost as people will be upset locally) be 'forced through' by planning law changes which I think is already under way?  Sites can also (under present rules) be 'compulsory purchased' by councils(?), but again - it's not (now) a quick and easy process.

The materials will be a problem.  Much would need to be imported and shortages will drive prices up (they have already I think risen faster than inflation).  Making bricks, concrete, tiles etc is VERY energy intensive, and wood is in worldwide short supply.

The infrastructure will generally be a problem.  Many parts of the country are already short of electricity supply capacity (as is the country as a whole), foul water drainage capacity and transport, schools, medical facilities are in many places 'full/overloaded'.  Fresh water is also short in some areas in summer.  IF modern new builds ate to be 'all electric and with charging capacity for electric cars - this is just not within present generating capability.

Labour with suitable skills is in short supply.  Again, shortages will force up prices.

[old man]

The whole scenario defies description.

[Bigbob]

It will never happen but it sounds good to the clowns that voted them in