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Aug 17 2012, 09:21 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Aug 17 2012, 10:07 PM) It seems to me that the proposals are mainly geared towards social tenants. No problem with that but Thatcher converted us all from house renters to house owners. Is this a Libdem attempt at a reversal of that. The large estate at the top of Turnpike was built as a council rental estate which was sold off cheaply to ownership when it was fashionable. Should we go down this route again, build, rent, sell.? It's a thoroughly socialist proposal. To be honest I don't know what I think of the idea. I'd sooner the state kept it's nose out of what should be a free market and largely deregulated house-building along the lines of a presumed consent for anything sustainable, so ideologically I really don't like council housing (or whatever it is we're supposed to call it now).
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Aug 18 2012, 01:23 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 18 2012, 10:18 AM) Houses are twice as much as they aught to be. I'm not sure how you arrive at a twice figure. The price of the land today and has been for the last few years, is the first major cost. This is followed by the charges levied by the council, structural engineers and architects. Then when planning is approved and that seems to take forever these days, every man and his dog want some cash from you in S106 payments. The library, education, road transport, the cycling lobby et al. This is followed by the cost of materials and of course yet another cost the building inspector. Labour costs are astronomical, plumbers, electricians, gas engineers and brickies all want a substantial share. Then, when it's finally built the agents take their cut selling it and of course the bank want their money back with interest. You might want to work out the cost of a house build yourself and I'm sure you may feel differently.
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Aug 18 2012, 01:57 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Aug 18 2012, 02:23 PM) I'm not sure how you arrive at a twice figure. The price of the land today and has been for the last few years, is the first major cost. This is followed by the charges levied by the council, structural engineers and architects. Then when planning is approved and that seems to take forever these days, every man and his dog want some cash from you in S106 payments. The library, education, road transport, the cycling lobby et al. This is followed by the cost of materials and of course yet another cost the building inspector. Labour costs are astronomical, plumbers, electricians, gas engineers and brickies all want a substantial share. Then, when it's finally built the agents take their cut selling it and of course the bank want their money back with interest.
You might want to work out the cost of a house build yourself and I'm sure you may feel differently. I arrived at my figure based on people's ability to pay. Land prices have soared because house prices soared. The governments have sold off housing stock too cheap and haven't reinvest in new stock; we have now arrived at a housing problem. Average wage is said to be ~£24k, but I would imagine a typical wage is a lower than that.
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Aug 18 2012, 05:04 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 18 2012, 02:57 PM) I arrived at my figure based on people's ability to pay. Land prices have soared because house prices soared. The governments have sold off housing stock too cheap and haven't reinvest in new stock; we have now arrived at a housing problem.
Average wage is said to be ~£24k, but I would imagine a typical wage is a lower than that. Land prices have soared because there's so much less of it around. Supply an demand. Anyway,, if no one can afford to buy, who is buying all the houses they're building now?
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Aug 18 2012, 06:29 PM
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QUOTE (Penelope @ Aug 18 2012, 06:04 PM) who is buying all the houses they're building now? Well somebody is, because I noticed a sign saying there are only 4 apartments left in the old Luker building. According to the NWN property guide, prices start at £250,000.
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Aug 18 2012, 06:37 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Aug 18 2012, 07:29 PM) Well somebody is, because I noticed a sign saying there are only 4 apartments left in the old Luker building. According to the NWN property guide, prices start at £250,000. Must be all us wicked landlords (pauses to cackle and put on pointy hat).
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Aug 18 2012, 08:25 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 18 2012, 02:57 PM) I arrived at my figure based on people's ability to pay. OK I want a new car but never mind how much it cost to build I only have the ability to pay a third of the market price.....
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Aug 18 2012, 08:54 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Aug 17 2012, 10:21 PM) so ideologically I really don't like council housing (or whatever it is we're supposed to call it now). I know what you mean, but let's be honest, it's not the Council Houses, or the Social Houses that are the problem. It's often the people who live in them. Terrible 'value judgement' I know, but show me a high crime area in Newbury, a high Drug use area, a high Vandal area, and I'll show you a Council Estate. (or whatever Sovereign call them now). The Houses don't cause the problems....it's the people in 'em.
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Aug 18 2012, 09:05 PM
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QUOTE (Penelope @ Aug 18 2012, 06:04 PM) Land prices have soared because there's so much less of it around. Supply an demand. Anyway,, if no one can afford to buy, who is buying all the houses they're building now? The people who can afford them of course, but there are a LOT that cannot due in the main to the housing policies of governments since the 70s. I repeat: land prices have soared because of the cost of housing - which has soared (compared to wages) since the 70s.
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Aug 18 2012, 09:10 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Aug 18 2012, 09:25 PM) OK I want a new car but never mind how much it cost to build I only have the ability to pay a third of the market price..... Well that is exactly the problem we have now. Government policies have seen to it that a large percentage of the population cannot afford a private house. As the government are not building any more, it is left to the private sector who are also not interested in building 'affordable' housing. And if people have to spend most of their money in housing, they have little left to 'grow the economy' we keep hearing about.
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Aug 18 2012, 09:21 PM
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QUOTE (Squelchy @ Aug 18 2012, 09:54 PM) I know what you mean, but let's be honest, it's not the Council Houses, or the Social Houses that are the problem. It's often the people who live in them. Terrible 'value judgement' I know, but show me a high crime area in Newbury, a high Drug use area, a high Vandal area, and I'll show you a Council Estate. (or whatever Sovereign call them now). The Houses don't cause the problems....it's the people in 'em. I can guarantee you now that the people responsible for creating all the sh*t in the economy now, live in fantastic housing, and the cost to people's livelihood they are responsible for pale into insignificance compared to the plebs you refer to here.
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Aug 18 2012, 09:31 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 18 2012, 10:21 PM) I can guarantee you now that the people responsible for creating all the sh*t in the economy now live in fantastic housing, and the cost to people's livelihood they are responsible for pale into insignificance compared to the plebs you refer to here. Ahh the politics of envy, again.
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Aug 18 2012, 09:36 PM
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QUOTE (Penelope @ Aug 18 2012, 10:31 PM) Ahh the politics of envy, again. What envy? I'm not envious and I think your argument is misplaced. I'm not moaning about how rich people are, I am moaning people's myopia in what they regard as anti-social. There are individuals walking free that have cost this country billions and have help put people in to a life of relative poverty.
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Aug 18 2012, 09:57 PM
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QUOTE (Penelope @ Aug 18 2012, 06:04 PM) Land prices have soared because there's so much less of it around. Supply an demand. Anyway,, if no one can afford to buy, who is buying all the houses they're building now? There is plenty of land around - but planning laws stop it from being used. It is the planning system that inflates the price of land.
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Aug 19 2012, 09:33 AM
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QUOTE (Squelchy @ Aug 18 2012, 09:54 PM) I know what you mean, but let's be honest, it's not the Council Houses, or the Social Houses that are the problem. It's often the people who live in them. Terrible 'value judgement' I know, but show me a high crime area in Newbury, a high Drug use area, a high Vandal area, and I'll show you a Council Estate. (or whatever Sovereign call them now).
The Houses don't cause the problems....it's the people in 'em. That wasn't what I meant. When I say I'm ideologically opposed to council housing I mean that I'm opposed, as a matter of principle, to the state supplying housing. I see the role of the state to provide our common goods such as roads, defence, rubbish collection, policing, social and health services, but I don't see that the state has a role as a landlord. I believe that the role of the state is to enable individuals and private enterprise to provide the nation's housing needs. I agree with blackdog; planning laws are central to the housing crisis because it's planning law that creates planning uplift and inflates house prices, and I agree with Exhausted too that the state is bleeding the home-buyer dry with all the miscellaneous charges for this and that. I would like to see planning regulation slashed with a presumption in favour of sustainable development. I think there is a need for some minimal building regulations but I'm not impressed with the green loby imposing excessive obligations over and above a prudent level of energy efficiency which do nothing but support the green ecconomy. Of course without planning uplift there wouldn't be building land available - farmers wouldn't tend to see their land because that's how they make their living, and farms would again be owned by farmers rather than the Church of England Pension Fund and such which just let it to farmers until they can make a killing by developing it. To overcome this I think there is a very good argument for compulsory purchase powers for housebuilding land.
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