New chancellor Rachel Reeves announces mandatory housing targets ‘to get Britain building again’ – and lifts onshore wind ban
https://news.sky.com/story/new-chancellor-rachel-reeves-announces-mandatory-housing-targets-and-end-to-onshore-wind-ban-to-get-britain-building-again-13175005
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Get Britain building again
Get Britain working again
Straight out of the Trump playbook
Lads, chill your beans, it was a joke 😂
Good. Hold councils accountable when target I ls missed.
What are they going to do to accommodate a housing target?
I live in a semi rural area that has had tonnes of new build estates crop up over the past decade with no development of infrastructure alongside it.
Roads are gridlocked at peak times and you can’t get a doctors appointment.
NIMBYism gets a lot of hate but it is sometimes warranted.
On shore wind. The technology is a lot more mature, get the sites and the money and market will turn up for it.
The Chancellor is responsible for unbanning onshore wind? How come?
Here’s a suggestion to help meet that target – make it easier for small developers and self-builders.
I’d go as far as saying a proportion of council/government owned land should be offered (at a reasonable price) to these smaller builders before the big developers.
More than a decade ago now when I was an FTB I was seriously interested in self-build, I’d heard from a Polish friend about how they’d put up a factory made 3-4 bedroom house back Poland in about a fortnight (start to finish). UK was still in the EU so it would have been pretty straightforward if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s impossible to find land to self build on.
I wonder how long until the midlands is just one giant new build housing estate
Private sector has absolutely ZERO incentive to ensure that supply increases while house prices are high.
So much so, that the Financial Conduct Authority earlier this year launched a massive investigation into the large house builders, as there was evidence of price rigging, colluding together and sharing market sensitive data with each other, deliberate inflation of new build prices, and also deliberately missing housing target….. Colour me fucking surprised!
The results of that investigation come out December this year.
So it’s all good her saying the private sector needs to do it – history and ongoing investigations however show they’ll do absolutely no such thing.
I sincerely hope this happens. The UK is desperate for affordable housing. I hope they also look at the amount of empty properties too.
Doing something about second homes and holiday lets might help this target too…
Ah yes, and an influx of illegal migrants to fill them, while our own homeless a veterans are homeless.. class actÂ
Yep, that will work. Compulsory targets that…..didn’t work the last time.
And does that include infrastructure as well, or will we just see more over-subscribed doctors and even fewer (if that’s possible) dentist appointments?
This is all grand but please can we make sure that these new developments are also mandatorily obliged to provide plans for infrastructure, shops, doctors, with proper parking and even leisure facilities. If we are going to build on habitat as well, there needs to be a provision for it to be replaced and integrated into the estate. We can lead the world with this opportunity on showing everybody how to develop and build affordable housing with genuine attention to the environment and replacing what we damage in the process.
I hope some of the building plans are to redevelop areas. Especially near bigger cities, a housing estate was built when it was the outskirts. Now, they are well within city limits and should be dense or, at the very least, mixed builds.
No village or town was built to stay as it was, they have always expanded and improved (subjectively). I live semi rural, and the number of people who think they live in an open-air museum is borderline psychotic. Especially funny when they raise the “look” of the area while they live in a 70s, 80s, or 90s built house. That look just like any other house in a former workers village.
A lot of the NiMBYs can’t afford to live in protected areas or listed buildings but do their best to try and make out their thrown up workers’ house is. Surrounded by old quarry and pit heaps. Thinking it’s nature.
The best are the protests in these dead mining towns, poor as hell, very little there all old council or mine houses, shit quality but God forbid anything gets built nearby that “spoils” the area. Then they are first moan the area gets no investment…
I feel like I’m missing something. What is the point of onshore wind when we can install solar instead?
Skips out on all the noise pollution and has much less intrusive aesthetics.
As long as more schools with teachers, GPs with doctors, etc is added alongside. As more housing solves the housing crisis, but then we create a whole nother crisis.
Mandatory for who?
If it is for the councils – will they be given more money to commission more houses – or is this going to be completely reliant on the volume house builders?
What happens if the volume house builders don’t meet the targets? Will there be some sort of repercussion?
If you build without local consent then you’re just going to see a lot of building sites going up in flames.
Be a real pity if the suitable sites are all in safe Tory & Reform seats.
Parties don’t build houses, house building companies do.
Why don’t companies build houses? Well all you need to do is look at their result statements to the stock market. Building less houses or building houses at a slower rate protects their profits. They say that themselves in publicly available releases to their shareholders. It’s in their very interest to keep demand high and supply low.
End the right to buy, let councils build without the fear of losing their stock at a discount, create a nationalised house building company which works alongside a nationalised apprenticeship programme.