'Ouses, Greenbelt and stuff
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What's the link to genocide? Assume it's much less tenuous than via any Tory donor?
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The assumption is that the solar panels will be made in Uyghur forced labour camps in China.
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If that was the concern you could lobby for rules around where you buy your solar panels from rather than blocking a solar power plant.
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Wouldn't fit in an irrational rant very well.
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Part of the problem is she firstly does not have a good grasp of macro issues and she is cosplaying being a nimby Tory.
She is in fact, by nature, a multilingual globalist who thought, until she stood for election, that the EU was wonderful, and took part in EU funded musical exchange trips and trips to various European embassies in London to wave an EU flag and play her state school paid for harp for which she only had the keys to. Perils of being the headteacher’s daughter.
IYKYK
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She's 36, her life at school is no longer relevant.
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This is a non-partisan YIMBY/planning thread.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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More chips than Harry Ramsden.
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A lot of voters who expect their Labour MP to honour their promises on local housing will care.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
ok guess the price of the 45 bed castle in Piedmont before you clink the link https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/125334947?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=overseas&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=OVERSEAS
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You couldn't afford to live in it any more than the people selling it can.
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Local MPs have minimal influence on planning applications (thank f***). It's a pretty prevalent lazy publicity stunt though and afflicts all parties.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Is that an example of the current owners who tried to 'gift' it to the equivalent of the NT who said 'nah GTF' so now try to get some muppet to give them at least a min amount of € or, as usual, it falls into dereliction as multiple shit loads of fix work needs doing?
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Yeah, the sale price is less than the annual running cost. It's a money pit and priced accordingly.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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The fact that it is affecting the party trying to build over the green belt makes it quite relevant, hence the mention.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
You've got your own safe space to whine about Labour. All parties have claimed they want to build more housing. None have met their targets since the 70s. MPs of all parties have then pulled the "yes, but not in *my* constituency" stunt. Pennycook is just one of hundreds.
I wish they were tearing up the Green Belt designation, but they're not: just nibbling at the edges.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I felt that an article about Labour MPs opposing housing development was kinda relevant to this thread...anyway, I can't unpost it now even if I wanted to. Not even Rick has denied the hypocrisy point...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
You could probably find extremely large cheap properties in Northern Wales and Scotland is notorious for cheap castles. What is your point!?
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Yes it's relevant, but it's not a hypocrisy unique to any party. The last government had a manifesto pledge to build 300,000 a year but briefly removed LA targets altogether, which immediately led to objectors launching legal challenges of already approved schemes. The LibDems are more than happy to pick up a pitchfork and a flaming torch if they think opposing some development will win them a by-election. Even the Greens are at it, opposing a solar farm and a new railway. It's so common that it barely warrants an eye roll.
Every government I can remember has stood on building more homes. No government has reached that 300,000 target in any year since before I was born, which is why we are in this mess, and why redeveloping a few car parks and petrol stations that have been reclassified as not Green Belt is really pretty trivial.
By the way, designation of land as Green Belt is a decision for the local planning authority, so they could have reclassified these car parks and petrol stations at any point anyway. Obviously they didn't because they knew the local busybodies would be screaming about concreting over the beautiful verdant Green Belt the moment a planning notice went up.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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That the UK is soooo expensive and Rick can’t buy a castle in his favourite part of Cambridge and / or London I think.
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This was written in 2020 and sets out how we keep ending up not building enough homes. It says a lot that things got worse for another 4 years and now promises to get back to roughly where we were in 2019 are seen as some sort of revolution.
While the housing numbers roundabout is almost back where it started – with targets imposed from above – the central conflict remains. Wherever you plan to build new homes, some people are going to be upset. The more homes you plan to build, the more upset people there will be. But if we don’t plan to build them, they’ll never be built. There’s no way of passing the buck, there’s no algorithm that can provide a magic solution. Ultimately it requires judgement, and judgement will always be criticised by those who don’t agree with it.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I'm not against sensible development but if the 'build as many as you can anywhere you can without thinking it through' attitudes like we see in Ricks posts are prevalent, then there is a danger that we screw things up.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Sure. Everyone has their own subjective idea of what sensible development is. That's not how we should be determining housing and development policy because it just ends up with nothing being done. It's difficult to see how we could screw things up much more than is already the case.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Rick missed the "in need of significant renovation" bit. That cost would easily be seven digits. They're essentially giving it away for an admin fee.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Some more reading if anyone is interested in just how far back the housing shortage is rooted.
With this little gem to illustrate that once upon a time the boot was on the other foot.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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How about this little gem?
do it up a bit, it’ll be awesome.
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That actually looks like it could make a decent developer some money if they convert it to flats. The listing won’t help though.
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I understand plans were approved in 2019 for residences, hotel, cafes etc but the pandemic put a stop to that.
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