If a house cost £665K in 1998, how much would you pay now?

[DimPrawn]

There are currently towns in Kent that are dying due to lack of jobs. Get jobs in these areas and sort out transport links and it would be easy to convince people to allow more housing to be built. There are farmers around who will happily sell some fields for development.

Yep.

Look on rightmove for land for sale and there's acres and acres of it, cheap too. But that's with no planning permission. Land with planning permission is eye wateringly expensive.

So there's no shortage of land or even those willing to sell it, there's only planning restrictions.

[OwlHoot]

There are currently towns in Kent that are dying due to lack of jobs. Get jobs in these areas and sort out transport links and it would be easy to convince people to allow more housing to be built. There are farmers around who will happily sell some fields for development.

I can't believe I'm hearing this - Are you saying you're actually in favour of building over what little remains of the green land in the South East, and turning the whole lot into one dreary megalopolis?!

[AtW]

15% of the UK is urban, we do have space for a few new towns, but as they need to be in the south

Time to invade the continent and return Brittany to the rightful owners?

[OwlHoot]

Time to invade the continent and return Brittany to the rightful owners?

or time to invade Holland and claim back some of the hundreds of square miles of land that have eroded off the coast of East Anglia and washed up in Holland

[SimonMac]

or time to invade Holland and claim back some of the hundreds of square miles of land that have eroded off the coast of East Anglia and washed up in Holland

Even the land doesn't want to be associated with East Anglia

[SueEllen]

I can't believe I'm hearing this - Are you saying you're actually in favour of building over what little remains of the green land in the South East, and turning the whole lot into one dreary megalopolis?!

I just mentioned Kent.

I didn't mention Herts, Surrey, Essex, Berkshire, E. Sussex, W. Sussex and Bucks.

[SimonMac]

Maybe the need to build more houses in the south east could be alleviated by some sort of greater velocity mass transit system linking the spacious north with the economic power house in and around London

[bobspud]

We only have so much land but as other have said we have even less coast...

If that shed is anywhere near London I am surprised it went that cheap

[doodab]

1996 wasn't exactly a long time ago, and £665K for a contractor then easily borrowable and payable.

Not sure same contractors could afford £3.5m now though, so what is it all telling you about contract rates?

FTFY

[doodab]

Maybe the need to build more houses in the south east could be alleviated by some sort of greater velocity mass transit system linking the spacious north with the economic power house in and around London

You mean scare people off moving to the south east by threatening them with an invasion of northerners?