Coming over here, taking our jobs...

[Old Greg]

Or reduce population growth. Oh look an elephant in the room!

The population of London is lower than it was in 1939, yet house prices have gone up in real terms. Economic growth in London demands more workers.


How much population growth would you like to see (in London or the UK)?

[vetran]

The population of London is lower than it was in 1939, yet house prices have gone up in real terms. Economic growth in London demands more workers.


How much population growth would you like to see (in London or the UK)?

Well if you want to go back to the slums of London with people packed in like Sardines then fine. I'm quite happy with it to stay static.

London's population over time | Poverty Indicators | London's Poverty Report

Economic growth doesn't demand more workers in London unless you are building factories.

UK population: how will it change over the next few decades? | News | theguardian.com

There are plenty of areas outside London with Brownfield sites, we need to spread business out across the UK.

[Old Greg]

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I want to extend the Green Belt. I've already said that. If you want a static population, how will you encourage people to leave as the population ages?

Economic growth doesn't demand more workers in London unless you are building factories.

Do you believe that manufacturing is the main driver of economic growth in London?

There are plenty of areas outside London with Brownfield sites, we need to spread business out across the UK.

London is a world city. By one categorisation, it is one of two alpha++ cities, along with NYC. Global city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Do you think we can spread business around the UK? Do you think that new or growing businesses, where the potential for economic growth lies, are choosing between London and Birmingham, or between London and New York (or Singapore etc.)?

London is where the action is and it is an expensive place to live, and always will be. However, the cost of living can be reduced by extending the green belt.

[vetran]

I want to extend the Green Belt. I've already said that. If you want a static population, how will you encourage people to leave as the population ages?



Do you believe that manufacturing is the main driver of economic growth in London?



London is a world city. By one categorisation, it is one of two alpha++ cities, along with NYC. Global city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Do you think we can spread business around the UK? Do you think that new or growing businesses, where the potential for economic growth lies, are choosing between London and Birmingham, or between London and New York (or Singapore etc.)?

London is where the action is and it is an expensive place to live, and always will be. However, the cost of living can be reduced by extending the green belt.

Why not aspire to Birmingham, Manchester & Glasgow becoming Alpha or Alpha+ cities?

We don't have a lot of green belt in Global terms, why not diversify and build the rest of the country rather than packing everything into one city.

If your argument is working population should go up in London lets remove housing benefit and let the city pay for its own accommodation?

[Old Greg]

Why not aspire to Birmingham, Manchester & Glasgow becoming Alpha or Alpha+ cities?

We don't have a lot of green belt in Global terms, why not diversify and build the rest of the country rather than packing everything into one city.

If your argument is working population should go up in London lets remove housing benefit and let the city pay for its own accommodation?

Perhaps taxes from London already pay for housing benefit?

We could aspire to all sorts of things but it's difficult to plan a world city with London on the doorstep. Why not just extend the green belt?

[vetran]

Perhaps taxes from London already pay for housing benefit?

We could aspire to all sorts of things but it's difficult to plan a world city with London on the doorstep. Why not just extend the green belt?

Well if we pay less housing benefit for expensive London by creating work elsewhere and moving people then maybe London can pay less tax?

Washington, LA & San Francisco managed it! Miami, Boston & Dallas are pretty keen.

Because once we have expanded to the green belt we can't get it back.

Why build down south when we have empty houses and brown field sites up north?

[Old Greg]

Well if we pay less housing benefit for expensive London by creating work elsewhere and moving people then maybe London can pay less tax?

Washington, LA & San Francisco managed it! Miami, Boston & Dallas are pretty keen.

Because once we have expanded to the green belt we can't get it back.

Why build down south when we have empty houses and brown field sites up north?

USA has five times to population of the UK. It's really hard to see how you can 'create work' elsewhere. The businesses are just going to move to other world cities. I wish it wasn't so.

The this with the green belt, is we create a new green belt. We shouldn't be bound by generations old planning decisions.