Small female cat with anti-scratch collar lost back of Barry Rd-Hindmans Rd.
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By exdulwicher · Posted
There are a couple of legal loopholes that can be exploited - basically developers put forward their case and proposal and then magically "discover" that they've overpaid for the land, that if they actually build the proposed affordable homes that their profit margin will drop below an acceptable level and in some cases that it doesn't "fit" - so if you're building 40 luxury homes, well the new owners won't want paupers living next door will they now! The consequence is that there are very few affordable new homes being built which, paradoxically, drives the prices of them ever higher. Really the only way they get built is to have them on greenfield sites out of the way but that then demands that the owners require a car to get anywhere or do anything - which is a very significant extra cost of living that many of the people buying these affordable new homes can't umm...afford. Gets brought up in a lot of transport matters - in an ideal world, you'd build on brownfield sites near to existing services (such as here) but that puts the price of the land up because it's more desirable, more convenient etc. And that makes affordable homes non-viable - in the exact place they're needed most. Pretty terrible planning system really, the Government have needed to get a grip on this for decades but house-ownership and house prices have become a very significant part of the UK economy. -
Could the council put planning conditions in place that would make this impossible?
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