21st Century Prefab Sprout....

[Fab Foodie]

Some evidence for the current social housing crisis....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66296...5WJFHsmNtxxcsajq7ieSVNJ8VWY1kmBl34ZGRPjibOFIE

 

[Fab Foodie]

Making livable houses / dwellings really isn't the problem, there's lots of clever low and high tech options, and smart, more eco-friendly methods of construction.

But finding affordable, suitable land, and getting planning permission to put dwellings on it, is a whole other issue.

A lot of land already owned by developers, a proportion of which already has pp to build, but the building is held back because market conditions aren't 'favourable' .

Developers seem to be able to find plots here and there in order to build a handful of 'Executive dwellings' though.
If the political will was there to change the planning rools such that a large number of smaller low cost dwellings need to be prioritised over 'Executive dwellings' this might skew things a bit.
The value of land is related to how much profit that can be extracted from it....

 

[mudsticks]

Developers seem to be able to find plots here and there in order to build a handful of 'Executive dwellings' though.
If the political will was there to change the planning rools such that a large number of smaller low cost dwellings need to be prioritised over 'Executive dwellings' this might skew things a bit.
The value of land is related to how much profit that can be extracted from it....

Seriously Fabbers .??

Please splain to me (who has been involved this for decades - including campaigning on matters planning ) how the value of land is related to development, and investment potential 🤔

 

[Fab Foodie]

Seriously Fabbers .??

Please splain to me (who has been involved this for decades - including campaigning on matters planning ) how the value of land is related to development, and investment potential 🤔

Well not quite, no, it's more complicated than that and I'll bow to your greater knowledge (and happy to learn) , but land that has oil below it that can be exploited will be different to industrial land spoiled by chemicals that requires significant costs to make it useable. The price somebody is prepared to pay for a certain area of land in a given place will have a relationship to how much money or value they think can be made from it. There are a gazillion other factors affecting that price too, such as geographical location, topography of site, supply/demand, amenities, availability of services, current planning restrictions, greenbelt/brownfield/agricultural designation/status for use, transport links, etc.

The point am failing to make (or maybe understand) is that 'the system' needs to be driven in a way that land available for development in critical areas should be designated/prioritised/permitted for building only certain types of social housing developments and that will have an impact on its value....