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    ‘Labour can’t have their cake and eat it’: housing crisis will force party into planning rows
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    ‘Labour can’t have their cake and eat it’: housing crisis will force party into planning rows


    ‘Labour can’t have their cake and eat it’: housing crisis will force party into planning rows

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/22/housing-crisis-labour-planning-rows-keir-starmer-pledge-new-homes

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    1. fmcae on

      Of course, they’ve been talking the talk for years and now it’s time to walk the walk. Being in power means making difficult decisions that may make them unpopular in some quarters.

    2. SteviesShoes on

      We have the ginger ninja in charge of housing. Wouldn’t want to have a row with her.

    3. marxistopportunist on

      We need to get global population down, and housing crises are perhaps the biggest element of that. It’s why you have to look hard to find affordable, spacious housing near desirable jobs across the developed world – industrialised economies that could easily afford to build on huge scales and deliver very affordable housing, but always chose not to.

    4. FelisCantabrigiensis on

      They’ll definitely get my vote if they stop NIMBYs vetoing everything in this country.

    5. queen-bathsheba on

      With their majority they can change the law. Could, could, centralise planning and give no local groups a say.

    6. fitcheckwhattheheck on

      This is one of my biggest concerns – there have been some truly wild planning decisions in my town over the last five or so years. They will approve literally anything if you plant some trees.

    7. GayWolfey on

      To me it’s simple. Outside of London especially. Build Up!!!

      The amount of new developments where there is 300 houses. There should also be 2 blocks of social housing flats.

    8. boingwater on

      The problem isn’t a lack of housing, it’s too many people. We can’t feed ourselves or process enough human waste as it is. The population on this island needs to be stabilised.
      It wouldn’t be too bad if Labour were building on brownfield, but here in Greater Manchester, they are going to destroy hundreds of acres of greenbelt.

    9. parkway_parkway on

      Rules should be that local people have a say in what type of houses they get and where .. but not how many.

      I don’t think Starmer has the courage to implement this though.

      Also 1.5 across the parliament is way too low, we have a deficit of around 4m and with so much immigration if they only build 1.5m that’s only going to house some of the new arrivals.

      With 28m houses adding 1.5m is only a 5% expansion, which isn’t close to enough.

    10. tigerjed on

      The problem is they won’t build new communities in sensible places with opportunities for people to build businesses organically. They will take in new build estates onto existing towns and villages with a care home and a business park.

      It happens around here a lot, lose a lot of lovely dog walks, to be replaced with a small park in the middle of some houses. But don’t worry the town gets a Costa, a subway and an Aldi/lidl with a few minimum wage jobs.

    12. Erdtree_ on

      Alright, what I’m gonna say might be controversial, but: fuck the landscape, people need HOMES!