Racedo
Indeed, uncontrolled migration over many decades has brought the UK to the point where every part of infrastructure is creaking at the seams, not just housing.
Wishing to keep this thread on track, having been extensively involved in trying to fight off the devious and sometimes near criminal tactics of Developers various I can tell you that they will stop at nothing to achieve their fiscal objectives.
They will say they want to build 25000 low cost houses, submit planning application, get told to go away and rethink, but they have already filed their next submission for 22000 houses, before the ink is dry on the first, followed by resubmit - reject, resubmit reject eventually reaching a figure of say 16000 houses. (Which was the original objective)
At this point planning wakes up and notices how much parking has been allocated for each house, shock horror, only one garage/off street parking per house. (and by the way, the price of each house has now risen by at least 40% because the developer cannot make enough profit off the lower number of sales.
Which means that the houses are no longer "low cost" but single family homes, which means each house is now at least a two car family.
16000 homes, at least 32000 cars half of which have nowhere to park, where do they go?, I'll tell you, up every little village street, access road, etc.
Ohh the council will need to control parking congestion, better start marking out the bays and putting up the signs, oops traffic will not assign bays or put up signs unless they can regulate the situation, parking charges anyone.
Ditto council tax, think infrastructure, sewerage, water, electricity.
This is pure and simple council revenue enhancement and developer enrichment at the cost of residents quality of life. Nothing to do with serving the "population".
Better start the fight now because it's coming.
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