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Are New Towns the solution to the UK's housing crisis? Well they are if you are of the view that the crisis is essentially a supply problem (too few houses being built)...
if you are of the opinion its a problem driven by financial services (linked to the provision of crest including buy-to0let mortgages), or the result of a mass of under/un-utilised housing stock, then New Town might offer some relief but are hardly an overall solution.
We definitely need more houses But we also need a different way to buy them
Combining the primary form of investment that's available to ordinary people with one of the most necessary basic needs is a fecking terrible plan
But also, the houses need to be good They need to be solidly built, energy efficient, spacious, good storage, outside space, good public transport links, etc etc Not a bunch of ticky tacky that will fill with mould and have nowhere to put your bike!
They were a good solution for around 40 years from inception. I worked for 2: Glenrothes in Fife 1976-80 & Skelmersdale 1981-84. Glenrothes revived the central Fife region from a mining slump & was fairly successful, although rushed house-building & latent issues problematic throughout New Towns. Skelmersdale was a disaster - merely exported Liverpool issues to an isolated neck of the woods & amplified housing issues. Not sure the concept is right for the current decade/century.
Are they going to build large numbers of affordable housing? No. It will be middle-class housing at middle-class prices, which is not what is needed at all.
It is seeking to solve a problem by giving money to the already wealthy. That is not an answer.
@SteveClough developers always claim they need the profits from their market priced estate in order to be able to build ‘affordable’ housing. How about turning that on its head? Once the ‘affordable’ housing is built and occupied they get permission to build the market priced ones.
houses for offshore capital funds to buy out and rent or just hoard. Not that we have any spare builders. They need to sell most of them with owner occupier primary residence or social housing provider ownership only restrictions in the deeds
How about the government fixed the towns we have - updated the water, electric, transport and sewage systems. Built properly insulated, energy efficient homes with heat pumps and solar panels on brownfield sites in those towns. The shops, surgeries, schools, etc are all there. We do not need even more countryside covered in miles of anonymous housing developments, with no transport.
Solve the problems of having unoccupied spaces and using what buildings exist first before going off to build new housing. Provide the need before building new estates on greenbelt.
Like "I remember when this was all fields", all this should remain fields is what I mean.
Brownfield redevelopment is good, just I feel like "new housing" isn't the solution because you can't build new houses forever. Where's the social housing, is that being built alongside these private houses? Who can live in these new towns? Are most of the properties going to follow the same path as other developments and sit empty as they're seen as investments and not places to live? We probably shouldn't be considering the idea of the 4-room detached property and should instead be thinking of something else, something more sustainable overall.
Yes, some new housing *is*required party for demographic & economic reasons of the changing geography of the UK economy (but that can also be shifted by encouraging business to move as well)... and a better mix of dwellings is required.
The issue of sustainability of an adequate hosing mix & supply is (as you suggest) the key Q. & one that seems too big for our current craven political class.
Hmm... I wonder if new towns founded properly, along Ebenezer Howard's garden city principles, could actually themselves be a vehicle for reshaping the financial services sector in service of the public good: garden city LAs as universal landlords of commercial property in their areas choosing which banks get premises based on those banks' service to the public.
It'd need the repeal of section 98 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, which effectively makes it impossible for a garden city to operate as a garden city.
I support the three new towns, plus one each in Scotland and Wales, but 50% of them should be council homes that cannot be sold off for at least 25 years, or we'll get the same problems of lack of affordable housing as landlords buy them up.
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Patsy (she/her)
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •We definitely need more houses
But we also need a different way to buy them
Combining the primary form of investment that's available to ordinary people with one of the most necessary basic needs is a fecking terrible plan
But also, the houses need to be good
They need to be solidly built, energy efficient, spacious, good storage, outside space, good public transport links, etc etc
Not a bunch of ticky tacky that will fill with mould and have nowhere to put your bike!
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Patsy (she/her) • • •@patsytheshark
Yup, but that seems unlikely in the current political climate, where quantity over quality seems to rule
CAFCA47
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •I worked for 2: Glenrothes in Fife 1976-80 & Skelmersdale 1981-84.
Glenrothes revived the central Fife region from a mining slump & was fairly successful, although rushed house-building & latent issues problematic throughout New Towns.
Skelmersdale was a disaster - merely exported Liverpool issues to an isolated neck of the woods & amplified housing issues.
Not sure the concept is right for the current decade/century.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May reshared this.
Schroedinger
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Are they going to build large numbers of affordable housing? No. It will be middle-class housing at middle-class prices, which is not what is needed at all.
It is seeking to solve a problem by giving money to the already wealthy. That is not an answer.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Schroedinger • • •@SteveClough
Indeed in London the GLA is seeking to rescue the affordable housing proportion for new developments after companies from.... developers.
Eliza MB
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •How about turning that on its head? Once the ‘affordable’ housing is built and occupied they get permission to build the market priced ones.
The Penguin of Evil
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Brian Smith
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •HarriettMB
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to HarriettMB • • •@HarriettMB
Yes, the existing housing stock is *clearly* a major aspect of the issue, although not so clear to the Landlord class
Nini
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Solve the problems of having unoccupied spaces and using what buildings exist first before going off to build new housing. Provide the need before building new estates on greenbelt.
Like "I remember when this was all fields", all this should remain fields is what I mean.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Nini • • •@nini
yes I posted an interesting report on brown field sites not so long ago....
Nini
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Nini • • •@nini
Yes, some new housing *is*required party for demographic & economic reasons of the changing geography of the UK economy (but that can also be shifted by encouraging business to move as well)... and a better mix of dwellings is required.
The issue of sustainability of an adequate hosing mix & supply is (as you suggest) the key Q. & one that seems too big for our current craven political class.
Only Ohm
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Only Ohm
in reply to Only Ohm • • •Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Only Ohm • • •@only_ohm
Sounds like a great way to go... but an impossible dream with our landlord dominated political class.
Anarchic Teapot ⚧️
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Pam C
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Pam C • • •@Pamela1960
Yup, I agree