Interesting. Doesn't take a massive brain to work out that getting rid of greenbelt space will remove CO2 producing plants, that a new housing development will add to pollution in the atmosphere and that people who currently walk the dog or (foot) golf there will have to drive to a new location. Sounds bad for the environment to me.I hope it gets built
Well, I have sufficient brain capacity to realise that climate change is caused by massive, societal level behaviours and outputs. Such as; this country’s obsession with gas boilers, the Tory governments appalling record on installing insulation in homes and more globally the lack of incentives for nations like Brazil to sufficiently protect their vital rainforests.
That's not what your fellow young people are saying. They're busy pouring milk out of Waitrose and gluing themselves to petrol stations. Every little action counts apparently.
We could just scrap the planning system and let developers build where they like as an answer?
possibly. most of places like Brighton, Hove the other towns along the coast were built before the current strict planning. build, or build up or build smaller. or see people have to move out the area because there is nothing spare.
I was pleasantly surprised ! Nice to see Peter Kyle there - knew Dawn would be as she's been fighting te Boon brothers for years. Amusing to see her walking the muddy path in heals - tough old bird who takes no prisoners - I have a lot of time for her and the help she provides local residents. Sorry - should have arranged something to identify each other and I'd have come and said hello.
Indeed. And it's keeping development south of the bypass rather than letting it creep further north. I'm not saying I'm in favour of the development but I'm certainly not opposed - and after the battle we had to get a football ground built my default position for any development in Brighton and Hove is to automatically sympathise with the developers.
Yes. But as you say new houses in Sussex aren't for 'local people', rather they're for 'people' period. Despite this and my earlier post I DO have misgivings about the amount of domestic properties being built in Sussex. I was over the Littlehampton/Angmering way at the weekend and the amount of new houses being built there is unbelievable. And my son's neighbourhood in Shoreham is being swamped by new blocks of flats - and it was only three years ago that his was a new place! (And no, the infrastructure, especially the A259, can't cope).
My point was simply that Developers and Councils spin the story that they are building on green spaces to provide additional housing needed in the area, wherever that may be, but the properties are, in the main, bought by people moving from more affluent areas,
Of course new homes wont be for local people... the local people already have homes there... that is what makes them local in the first place? It is an utterly, utterly stupid argument for not building homes. More NIMBY-ist twaddle.
This is what gets me more than anything when it comes to all the development going on. No-one gives a shit about the infrastructure which as you say already can't cope. It's unforgivable that so much development is allowed in places such as along the a259 which is already beyond capacity. Yes we need new houses but where the f*** are the new roads etc to go with all the new houses? Utterly infuriating
Nail on head. We have a housing crisis in the UK that could be solved by preventing single families/corporations from owning hundreds of houses and snapping up any new houses that come to market.
There are plenty of families living together who would like to split up, I'm one of them actually. But as a single person on a decent wage it's almost impossible for me to get on the property ladder without 1) living at home for 5 years to save or 2) getting help from parents with money. The housing market is completely f***ed in this country, and I can't see any major parties offering solutions.
The NHF (housing associations) state we need 340,000 brand new homes a year. 3.6m households have some form of housing need, many in awful situations. Yet the UK see completion of just 200,000 new completions a year. Combined with exponential price growth, homes here cost 6x that in 1995.
