Increase In Local Housing

[Crazyface]

Travel around my town is a nightmare at certain times and is only going to get worse as our council have approved loads of areas to be developed for housing. Just where do they think the cars are going to go? The roads in England were not built for the heavy traffic loads they now have to bear and it's now going to get worse. Why can't these new houses be built away from current towns and have roads built to be able to take an increase in traffic? Sod the green belt. We can't damn well move around here!

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Travel around my town is a nightmare at certain times and is only going to get worse as our council have approved loads of areas to be developed for housing. Just where do they think the cars are going to go? The roads in England were not built for the heavy traffic loads they now have to bear and it's now going to get worse. Why can't these new houses be built away from current towns and have roads built to be able to take an increase in traffic? Sod the green belt. We can't damn well move around here!

Move then?

 

[ScienceBoy]

If someone can think of a solution for Uk towns and cities that doesn’t cause until outcry and complain due to disruption then they will be very rich.

It’s not more roads and cars we need. It’s less travel and when we do have to it’s on uninpeded, efficient public transport.

 

[Neilds]

Less people? And this doesn’t just mean immigrants as these are needed, it is the whole package - large families, ivf, etc.

I know this is controversial and I don’t want to anger/upset any forumers who have had ivf and failed but the truth is we have too many people for the infrastructure we have and if we can’t or won’t build more houses and facilities then surely we have to address the other side of the issue which is the amount of people we have in the country.

 

[jim8flog]

Where I live the 'village has' more than doubled in size since I movewd here.

The biggest problem is that as a village the main road goes through the centre of it and as a fairly old village very few main road houses were built with garages or parking places so getting in and out can be a nightmare.

They missed a big opportunity when Dr. Beeching closed down the local railway line. The line was then on the outskirts of the village and provided a direct route to the main A303 instead of building a road on the line they let houses be built on it. This was despite the fact they built a road on the section that went from the A303 in to Yeovil.

 

[SocketRocket]

You get the kind of country you deserve. We have decided we want an overpopulated one so we have to put up with the consequences.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I constantly am told that by the time I get to retirement age, pensioners like I will be will outweigh those earning and paying tax, thus we need to increase the birth rate and numbers of employed people so immigration is needed. We also have a society that lives longer and more importantly has more single adults or fragments families. What are we to do if we dont have more housing?
The next hurdle is the lack of infrastructure that more housing requires.

 

[SocketRocket]

I constantly am told that by the time I get to retirement age, pensioners like I will be will outweigh those earning and paying tax, thus we need to increase the birth rate and numbers of employed people so immigration is needed. We also have a society that lives longer and more importantly has more single adults or fragments families. What are we to do if we dont have more housing?
The next hurdle is the lack of infrastructure that more housing requires.

These immigrants then grow old and we need even more to support them and exponentially upwards. It needs a cleverer solution than more and more immigrants.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Move then?

Is the right answer, lots of cheap housing in peaceful rural areas north of Preston.

 

[Jamesbrown]

The answer is a catastrophe. War or some sort of pandemic. A few billion people need removing from the earth.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Travel around my town is a nightmare at certain times and is only going to get worse as our council have approved loads of areas to be developed for housing. Just where do they think the cars are going to go? The roads in England were not built for the heavy traffic loads they now have to bear and it's now going to get worse. Why can't these new houses be built away from current towns and have roads built to be able to take an increase in traffic? Sod the green belt. We can't damn well move around here!

Because in the Uk the housing market is mostly seen as something to generate profit from. And you won't generate much profit from houses away from the main centres of work and social life.

 

[Hacker Khan]

These immigrants then grow old and we need even more to support them and exponentially upwards. It needs a cleverer solution than more and more immigrants.

Can't believe you are banging on about too many immigrants in yet another thread....

 

[Hacker Khan]

Less people? And this doesn’t just mean immigrants as these are needed, it is the whole package - large families, ivf, etc.

I know this is controversial and I don’t want to anger/upset any forumers who have had ivf and failed but the truth is we have too many people for the infrastructure we have and if we can’t or won’t build more houses and facilities then surely we have to address the other side of the issue which is the amount of people we have in the country.

Then again I suppose blaming immigration makes more sense then claiming ivf has anything to do with this..

 

[Tashyboy]

The answer is a catastrophe. War or some sort of pandemic. A few billion people need removing from the earth.

Seems a bit extreme. 😳
Wouldnt it be a bit easier if we all bought a bike or summat.

 

[jim8flog]

The answer is a catastrophe. War or some sort of pandemic. A few billion people need removing from the earth.

Bring back Spanish Flu - that will do it.

 

[SocketRocket]

Can't believe you are banging on about too many immigrants in yet another thread....

Cant believe you still don't see the problem, I guess your 'all immigration is good for us ' filter is working for you and ignoring the facts.

 

[SocketRocket]

Then again I suppose blaming immigration makes more sense then claiming ivf has anything to do with this..

It all has something to do with this. Population growth is the problem.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

It all has something to do with this. Population growth is the problem.

It is only a problem in a few overcrowded areas of the UK.
People who choose to live in those areas should either stop greeting or get on their bikes.
There are loads of underpopulated areas in the UK if you took a few seconds to look.

 

[MegaSteve]

Lack of investment is the 'problem'...

If population growth is good for business [as they like to tell us] then government should be taxing business APPROPIATELY so that sufficient funds are available to afford a matching growth in infrastructure...

That though is filed under... Some hope, no hope...

 

[Tashyboy]

It is only a problem in a few overcrowded areas of the UK.
People who choose to live in those areas should either stop greeting or get on their bikes.
There are loads of underpopulated areas in the UK if you took a few seconds to look.

Cheers Doon, the government lets in hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans who set up there own communities, if you don't like it move. How's that help with the increase in local housing?