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Rhiannon Sep 5, 2011 08:29:51
Replying to The Sea Cat

It made me laugh (bitterly) that on the radio this morning they said it was about 'young people's prosperity and future'. My arse it is, it's about relaxing planning permission so massively rich people can make lots of money by building crap houses on places where they weren't allowed to before. Besides, from my perspective as someone who earns a reasonable wage but can't see how they could ever buy a house, these new houses are either going to be pokey flimsy barely-affordable 'starter homes' or they're going to get rented out by rich buy-to-letters to mugs like me, while their so-called 'value' heads ever skywards. Yeah that's really helping young people. I'm not even a bloody young person. This Country Is Going To The Dogs. It makes me feel tired.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Sep 5, 2011 08:48:00
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
It made me laugh (bitterly) that on the radio this morning they said it was about 'young people's prosperity and future'. My arse it is, it's about relaxing planning permission so massively rich people can make lots of money by building crap houses on places where they weren't allowed to before. Besides, from my perspective as someone who earns a reasonable wage but can't see how they could ever buy a house, these new houses are either going to be pokey flimsy barely-affordable 'starter homes' or they're going to get rented out by rich buy-to-letters to mugs like me, while their so-called 'value' heads ever skywards. Yeah that's really helping young people. I'm not even a bloody young person. This Country Is Going To The Dogs. It makes me feel tired.
Seacat, I agree with every syllable, and Rhiannon, the country makes me tired too. Every ten or fifteen years sufficient voters come to the fore who don't recall what these people are like and what their agenda is.

The green belt may or may not be safe but there are vast tracts of non-green belt land of huge amenity value that's going to be pounced on. There are plenty of unattractive tracts that could be used for new housing, the government knows that perfectly well, but their mates want to get hold of the nice bits.

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves Sep 5, 2011 10:04:55
Replying to Rhiannon

Yes, I'm just printing my Stage II complaint against the Northumberland planners - five miles of road in upland Northld. with no planning permssion yet they turn down an application for an adapted bungalow in a grot village (beside a lost long barrow) because it doesn't comply with the AONB development plan.

Both the Northwest and the Northeast passages are currently open - which means the icecaps are melting at a fantastic rate. It's perhaps never happened before that both are passable (with care). So, one could argue that a right wing government is needed to distribute food fairly (for work) when the shortages start to come. (I'll be pushing up the daisies by then so can take a more detached view perhaps).

When people complain about saving Britain's green and beautiful land where were they when the motorways were being built? Or the high density urban estates? It seems a bit late now!