Separate Moan Thread About The Election

Has the ban on oversea nationals buying property in New Zealand solved the housing issue, probably not.

Stuff

https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/nzs-...ld-more-houses-if-theres-no-money-in-it-44030

With being out of the EU, then the UK could probably have more stringent restrictions on oversea nationals compared to countries within the EU.

for an EU Member State to restrict non-residents from purchasing properties, there must be "overriding reasons of general interest" recognised in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

I very much doubt there is sufficient evidence that the purchase of property by oversea investors is a major contribution to the UK's housing issues.

 

Setting housing targets is easy, they just pluck a figure out of the air and then dictate to the local authority how many they have to build.
It then becomes a local problem trying to find suitable land to use.
What appears to happen around here is the councils come up with land right on their boundary which then kind of annoys the neighbouring council.

But the government have done their bit, so job done, cross that one off the list.

 

When I first married The Isle of Thanet had 3 small villages surrounded by
farm land. Today with the massive house building on farm land these villages
will very soon disappear.

 

We have 6,000 houses just starting to be built about a mile up the road. It's on green belt prime agricultural land. They have also put up a massive Amazon warehouse for us all to look at. The housing will be like a new town being built on the side of Sutton Coldfield.

We have been given a survey about traffic, which suggests we should not use cars. They are designating it as a green travel area. On your bike I say.

And what about these new towns that Labour are threatening the country with. Will they compulsory purchase the poor farmers land? It is irreversible damage to the countryside.

 

All the housing development around here as also meant that the outter villages have been swallowed up.
I'm glad I live in a house that is nearly 80 yrs old, at least it was built properly and with space and garden around it.

Although most people around here have added extensions that go to the boundary because nobody seems to want garden any more.
They then lose any means of getting anything around to the back of the house apart from taking it through the house, and often bother a neighbour if it's something in a wheel barrow.

 

Why are they all competing to build the most number of homes? Even the Lib Dems say 1.9m. And then they call it growth!

 

They are suggesting it will solve the housing crisis.
But it won't ever catch up if the population of the country keeps rising like it is.

The other thing is what parts of the country are going to bear the brunt.

 

I have an, empty hole for sale if anyone is interested.

 

If it was a full hole, would it still be a hole.