Tuesday, Jul 10, 2007
Looks like Brown the HPC ally
BBC News: Brown the Builder
Tony Blair had education, education, education, Gordon Brown has gone for housing, housing, housing.
She said building the homes would have to take priority over environmental concerns, and she refused to rule out building on the green belt.
And, predictably, the Tories reacted swiftly, claiming Ms Blears had revealed Gordon Brown's plans to "systematically concrete over the green belt".
WHY CANT THE TORIES SEE THIS AS A GOOD THING!!
Posted by delboypass @ 04:29 PM (140 views) Add Comment
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1. royston said...
That Shifty Scotsman......he never misses a trick, does he?
2. dohousescrashinthewoods said...
Is it a good thing? This country is already packed to the gunnells with flaky, high-density housing.
There is evidence to show that overcrowding is in and of itself a source of misery and low quality of life.
If I could believe we were in for sensitive, varied and sustainable developmets with a decent amount of space, I could be tempted, but the chances are we're talking about wallpapering any and all green space (read remaining quality of life) with identikit MDF rabbit-hutches as a knee-jerk reaction to a supply shortage which is an insignificant side show (or smokescreen) when compared to the staggering economic engineering that has put credit/money supply/inflation out of control.
I only hope we get the HPC before the countryside is scatter-gunned with Brown boxes. Call me a nimby, but what would Londoners say if Mr Toad decided to put up BTL towers on Hyde Park, St James's Park, Battersea Park and Kew Gardens (because there is such an accute shortage in the capital)? There might even be riots.
How about developing economic centres other than London to create jobs and demand - and promoting them? "Ew, it's just not London, darling, is it?" no it's bloody not and thank feck for that. As someone said, dirty, dangerous, overpriced and overrated. If a few more of us woke up from our London-induced comas we might realise a thing or two.
Sorry for the rant, but a) supply is not the issue, it's overstimulated demand that is the problem and b) there are far better ways of tackling increasing building without destroying one of the few simple pleasures this nation can still boast of.
3. shipbuilder said...
I think this makes a good point -
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2121832,00.html
I'm just not convinced that the argument to build on green belts is a convincing one. Dohouses... makes a good point about the ridiculously London/SE centric economy which undoubtedly has led to overcrowding there, but I would be unconvinced about anywhere else.
To the short sighted the obvious solution (and the way we will probably go) is throw up as many cheap houses as possible on the green belts in the soputh, only to be snapped up by BTLs?
Short-termist politics are detroying this country bit by bit.