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We must build on the green belt to end this housing crisis

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    #11
    All of the things that would be needed to achieve the rectification of the housing market will never be done because too many people with access to the policy makers will be directly affected.

    1) Its pointless talking about building homes when they automatically come on the market at the highest end of the price spectrum... some affordable stuff is built but its always a small shed in the corner.
    2) Saying no house without an NI number is great but let me know who is going to conduct mass home invasions in some part of the country to throw all the non qualifying victims out.
    3) for the residents of St Ives to be moaning about the fact that they priced their own kids out the market is ******* hypocrisy at its worse after all every single house that ended up as a second home was sold by a family that lived there at one point in time... if you don't want something and throw it away you can hardly complain if someone else likes it and finds value in it...

    They are starting to talk a hard line on money laundering but when a £4million flat in Kensington is at stake its going to be worth paying some really good legal teams to keep the house... I'm not sure that the government will be up for that fight which is why there are still billions of pound in un-confiscated assets all over the world.

    Last of all there are quite a few legally operated funds that have been buying homes for pension funds and other income streams. So even if this rhetoric shakes loads of houses onto the market as dictators flee with their cash, any slack in the market is going to be taken by the funds and if its in a crashing market then its even better as they get more assets cheaper.

    either way you either buy a house for/with your kids or they will be ****ed and no amount of private education will help them...

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      #12
      Originally posted by Gumbo Robot View Post
      That's it. I can't help feeling that at least part of this housing bubble is down to foreign investors seeing the London property market as a safe haven for their money.

      As a result, prices are ridiculously overinflated & buying a house round my way is a nightmare because you're in competition with cash buyers from London who are cashing in & buying second homes.
      Correct. There's also those families that have inherited a house in central London and seeking to cash in and move to the 'burbs. Flog a £4m Georgian terrace in the west end and relocate to a £1m plush detached in a leafy outskirt, thus keeping the outskirts in the bubble too.
      The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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        #13
        I saw an advert this morning in the metro(I could not cycle today and was bored).

        Get on the housing ladder. Flat. £145k.

        Of course it was a shoebox flat in a god forsaken hell hole. Luton.

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          #14
          How about thinking outside the box?

          All those rubbish tankers that sail to Africa to dump our rubbish could come back laden with gravel and rock which could be used to build giant land extensions into the North sea, where houses could eventually built. Well why not, the Dutch did something similar (I think), and the Chinese in Hong Kong.
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            #15
            Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
            How about thinking outside the box?

            All those rubbish tankers that sail to Africa to dump our rubbish could come back laden with gravel and rock which could be used to build giant land extensions into the North sea, where houses could eventually built. Well why not, the Dutch did something similar (I think), and the Chinese in Hong Kong.
            Its a good idea but to be fair there is a fair few miles of land in Scotland and wales that we could build on extensively first. That would be far cheaper. it might also help them to kickstart their own economies properly as we could give them plenty of the skilled migrants that everyone keeps talking about

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              #16
              Originally posted by bobspud View Post
              Its a good idea but to be fair there is a fair few miles of land in Scotland and wales that we could build on extensively first. That would be far cheaper. it might also help them to kickstart their own economies properly as we could give them plenty of the skilled migrants that everyone keeps talking about
              Why not move parliament up there? Why does it need to be in London?

              HoP are crumbling anyway - £10bn repair bill.

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                #17
                Originally posted by bobspud View Post
                Its a good idea but to be fair there is a fair few miles of land in Scotland and wales that we could build on extensively first. That would be far cheaper. it might also help them to kickstart their own economies properly as we could give them plenty of the skilled migrants that everyone keeps talking about
                Bloody migrants, coming over here taking our off-shored jobs.
                The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                  Why not move parliament up there? Why does it need to be in London?
                  Where else will the lords find proper coke and hookers?

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
                    Where else will the lords find proper coke and hookers?
                    What do you need?
                    The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
                      Where else will the lords find proper coke and hookers?
                      Pretty sure Wales has a few working girls, if all else fails

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