Get off my land

Is anyone else fed up with these privileged not in my back yard folk who set up protest groups to stop a potential development which will create new jobs and housing for people that can’t afford to get on the property ladder due to unaffordable housing ?
Have they forgotten that house prices in in the 50s to 80s were significantly lower than today and more affordable, I know what with inflation and cost of living against wages has to be factored in to the equation .
If they inherited a house which is now worth £750,000 but in 1970 was only £12,000 they should let others have the right to home ownership and stop the moaning with same narrative of it will spoil the view for dog walking or miraculously a rare crested newt has taken up a residence or a bird that flow 5000 miles and is protected.

All very well but the developers don’t want to build houses for those who are struggling to find the deposit, instead they want to build South Fork with garaging for three Mercs and space to park the Yacht. Any hint of houses for the local young is met with there not being enough profit margin for it to be ‘sustainable’ .

Tarmaceater:
Is anyone else fed up with these privileged not in my back yard folk who set up protest groups to stop a potential development which will create new jobs and housing for people that can’t afford to get on the property ladder due to unaffordable housing ?
Have they forgotten that house prices in in the 50s to 80s were significantly lower than today and more affordable, I know what with inflation and cost of living against wages has to be factored in to the equation .
If they inherited a house which is now worth £750,000 but in 1970 was only £12,000 they should let others have the right to home ownership and stop the moaning with same narrative of it will spoil the view for dog walking or miraculously a rare crested newt has taken up a residence or a bird that flow 5000 miles and is protected.

You mean Northern NIMBY’s wanting to turn more of what remains of the South East into yet more of London to keep the North a barren under populated wasteland and wrecking the best farmland in the most productive climate for growing food that actually feeds us all, so as to save barren hillsides that produce nothing but bleedin sheep at best.
So fine lets have some new towns built in ■■■■■■■ and Northumbria and North Yorkshire and Wales.
The fact is there is no link between house prices and supply.Which is why Greater London is an expensive over developed zb hole and why some of the cheapest housing costs are in the least developed areas of the country and the Northern NIMBYs know it.

cav551:
All very well but the developers don’t want to build houses for those who are struggling to find the deposit, instead they want to build South Fork with garaging for three Mercs and space to park the Yacht. Any hint of houses for the local young is met with there not being enough profit margin for it to be ‘sustainable’ .

Yeah right let’s build loads of high rise flats and high density shoe boxes to create even Greater London that no one wants to live in to maintain race to the bottom wage levels to make the bosses even richer and to keep the North’s barren hillsides empty.That’ll fix it.

Look at this.
“Reddit - dataisbeautiful - [OC] Salaries vs House prices in UK” amp-reddit-com.cdn.ampproject.o … s_in_uk%2F
Make sure you read comments below to see criticism of those headline figures though. That leads to this
“Imgur Post - Imgur” m.imgur.com/o4r0gPX
Suggesting that over 50 years the cost of UK housing compared to pay has doubled.
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Why housing costs? Land shortages?
“Affordability of housing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afforda … ed_Kingdom
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Selling off of council homes, without replacing them?
Seeing houses as investments rather than homes? So price inflation is seen as “good”!
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Some interesting reading there Franglais thanks for taking the time to post it and it seems stamp duty has not really been saved as due to high demand and shortage of housing any money saved will be lost due to price increases especially in rural areas where folks are paying huge prices and the owners can ask what they want .

Carryfast:

Tarmaceater:
Is anyone else fed up with these privileged not in my back yard folk who set up protest groups to stop a potential development which will create new jobs and housing for people that can’t afford to get on the property ladder due to unaffordable housing ?
Have they forgotten that house prices in in the 50s to 80s were significantly lower than today and more affordable, I know what with inflation and cost of living against wages has to be factored in to the equation .
If they inherited a house which is now worth £750,000 but in 1970 was only £12,000 they should let others have the right to home ownership and stop the moaning with same narrative of it will spoil the view for dog walking or miraculously a rare crested newt has taken up a residence or a bird that flow 5000 miles and is protected.

You mean Northern NIMBY’s wanting to turn more of what remains of the South East into yet more of London to keep the North a barren under populated wasteland and wrecking the best farmland in the most productive climate for growing food that actually feeds us all, so as to save barren hillsides that produce nothing but bleedin sheep at best.
So fine lets have some new towns built in ■■■■■■■ and Northumbria and North Yorkshire and Wales.
The fact is there is no link between house prices and supply.Which is why Greater London is an expensive over developed zb hole and why some of the cheapest housing costs are in the least developed areas of the country and the Northern NIMBYs know it.

You are comically angry about everything aren’t you! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Mortgage interest rates are one of the biggest influencers in house pricing, if interest rates were still in the realms of 7% there wouldn’t have been such ridiculous increases, i can still remeber when they went up to 15% for a while.

Don’t forget the elephant in the room, mass immigration, you can’t import up to 500,000 people a year and expect normal house building to keep up, arguing among ourselves where new houses should be built and at what cost isn’t going to solve this issue, it’s just another divide and rule ploy to keep the plebs from uniting against who should be blamed, ie successive govts who have all promised to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands and not one of them has done a thing about it…and you’ll still vote for them :unamused:

A valid point there Judian . :smiley: