Government pledges votes on neighbours' extensions

[Borg Warner]

Will be interesting to see how this works out:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61400935

The back garden build by a neighbour close to us may not have got through.

[macafee2]

Originally Posted by Borg Warner

Will be interesting to see how this works out:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61400935

The back garden build by a neighbour close to us may not have got through.

For some this will work well for others it will not.
At our previous house if neighbours had voted we probably would have gotten away with building a 2 story extension.

macafee2

[coolguy]

I'm redundant! I have been a member of our Borough and then Unitary Planning Committee for 20 years (Chairman for 8 years), and whilst I can see great advantages in this, it will certainly lessen my role (not grumbling), it will neither get the number of houses that the Government want built, or satisfy those who have suffered previous monstrosities being built nearby.

INTERESTING TIMES.

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by coolguy

INTERESTING TIMES.

It certainly will be but I don't personally believe that the small island of the UK will ever have enough housing with a rising population.

Kev

[macafee2]

Originally Posted by torque2me

It certainly will be but I don't personally believe that the small island of the UK will ever have enough housing with a rising population.

Kev

you would be surprised how much green land we have, when you fly over the country it is quite surprising.

There are people and I am one of them that own land just to prevent building, irrespective of planning rules. I am pretty sure there are others in the village just the same.
I think last year one chap spent 16k planting trees, about 4,000 of them I think on his land and he seems to have quite a lot of it.

macafee2

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by macafee2

you would be surprised how much green land we have, when you fly over the country it is quite surprising.

Yeah, can look a lot but not all is arable. But unbuilt on land can be home to wild life and a sponge for rain.

There are people and I am one of them that own land just to prevent building, irrespective of planning rules. I am pretty sure there are others in the village just the same.
I think last year one chap spent 16k planting trees, about 4,000 of them I think on his land and he seems to have quite a lot of it.

macafee2

Lets hope whoever takes the land on in the future is also altruistic!

Kev

[KWIL]

Originally Posted by torque2me

It certainly will be but I don't personally believe that the small island of the UK will ever have enough housing with a rising population.

Kev

Perhaps now is the time to plan for a smaller population?

[roverbarmy]

When we moved into our house, some twenty years ago, we were told that the land opposite was "green belt" and could never be built on. It's full of Persimmons boxes made of ticky tacky now!

[MSS]

Originally Posted by KWIL

Perhaps now is the time to plan for a smaller population?

I think that plan is already in action - it's called NHS efficiency drive!

[macafee2]

Originally Posted by KWIL

Perhaps now is the time to plan for a smaller population?

That has been tried with illness (covid, flu, cancer, heart attacks) but people came up with a way to prevent the deaths, we have famine but people ask for food, we have dirty water but people ask for money for clean water.

macafee2