Reply to: Government unlikely to meet 2020 housebuilding target says Redrow boss

[DallasDad]

“Government won't approve our latest multi-shoebox planning application which will impact my personal bonus target says Redrow boss.”

FTFY

[AtW]

Next stop, Raccoon City. World War Z. Glasgow, here we come.

FTFY

[LondonManc]

Next stop, Raccoon City. World War Z, here we come.

[AtW]

Just wait until they run out of horizontal space and start building vertically....

[DimPrawn]

Just wait until they run out of horizontal space and start building vertically....

Space for all the lovely Turkish peoples arriving next year!

[greenlake]

All those lovely new rabbit hutches, with paper thin walls, no garden, no privacy, and parking problems.

Just wait until they run out of horizontal space and start building vertically....

[PurpleGorilla]

Everyone can own their own home...

[DimPrawn]

Think you could change the thread title to 'Government unlikely to hit any target ever'.

Borrowing, house building, Inflation, job creation, education.....you named it, this lot have ****ed it up.

They've create millions of jobs. By forcing employers into the path of sacking one full time member of staff, and hiring two part timers on lower pay with less benefits.

Bingo, lots more jobs!

[TestMangler]

Think you could change the thread title to 'Government unlikely to hit any target ever'.

Borrowing, house building, Inflation, job creation, education.....you named it, this lot have ****ed it up.

[Hobosapien]

or the three million little termites.

Thank God we don't have those pests here in the UK

Maybe they're the natural solution to the invasion of the Japanese knotweed.

That battle was covered in episode 11 of The Pacific.

[OwlHoot]

Though they don't appear to know the tale of the three little piggies, and still build them in wood. ...

or the three million little termites.

Thank God we don't have those pests here in the UK

[Hobosapien]

At least in the USA they have regular hurricanes and tornadoes to cull the crappily built housing.

Though they don't appear to know the tale of the three little piggies, and still build them in wood.

The house building companies over there must be raking it in, rebuilding the same house over and over again.

It's a bit more of a long game in the UK with wooden frame and plaster board new builds. I wonder what the life expectancy of those are. May become a factor if they keep lengthening mortgages beyond the typical 25 years so they are unmortgageable from day 1.

[PurpleGorilla]

Multiply that image a 1000 times and that's Swindon. They build one of those every week.

They don't however build any new major roads, or decent schools, or decent shopping, or footpaths and certainly no cycle paths.

Just identikit houses like that jammed in, copy and paste, over and over again.

What's not to like eh?

And Chippenham, and Melksham, and Calne.

There are provisions in local planning to push for schools and shops to be built. The council are muppets, drinking in the same lodge as the developers.

These tulip boxes cost £30k to build and sell for £300k.

It's rotten. Rotten to the core.

[DimPrawn]

All those lovely new rabbit hutches, with paper thin walls, no garden, no privacy, and parking problems.

Multiply that image a 1000 times and that's Swindon. They build one of those every week.

They don't however build any new major roads, or decent schools, or decent shopping, or footpaths and certainly no cycle paths.

Just identikit houses like that jammed in, copy and paste, over and over again.

What's not to like eh?

[PurpleGorilla]

All those lovely new rabbit hutches, with paper thin walls, no garden, no privacy, and parking problems.