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Vambogills
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How can it be as green as ever with Ashford quadrupling in size and Maidstone, Medway and countless other towns creeping developement by developement into once green spaces? Even Lewisham council are buying parts of Kent developements for re-housing while others sell their London flats to buy a 4 bed detached in Kent.
On your Walderslade doorstep the 2000 house proposal for Lidsing will surely be now be resurrected. If passed this time then Medway will pick up the costs of health, traffic and and environmental impact while Maidstone Council pockets the rates cash.
Of course much of Kent is still beautiful but it is folly to think that endless urban sprawl can go on unchecked or unchallenged.
Jerryattrick
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It was a mistake for labour to JUST announce they are out to override planning permission to build houses.
It left them open to criticism from all angles. Obvious one was that it was being done to house migrants which they did not handle well. Its obvious that part if the problem is 10 million immigrants extra over the last ten years.
Should have been announced as part of an infrastructure and housing plan. This should have formally enforced a ban on housing without adequate transport, health, water, flooding and social provision. I do not know of any new development that meets anywhere near these standards. Infrastructure must be built before a single house is built.
There also was no enforced social housing or affordable housing rule.
The 1940s great build that i am familiar with is the massive temple estate in Strood which was built on part of Cobham Woods. The house that i was born in was backed directly onto the woods.
Infrastructure went in first then the shops, medical and schools. Also there were 40 factories and 40,000 more jobs than now in medway.
Whats happening now is nothing like it - its just a free for all for pure profit.
All planning seems to have gone, housing is no good without work or is the plan to just pay people not to work.
As said kents roads apart from 2 motorways are the same as hundreds of years ago and the flood risks have not changed.
So the house building is great but without any plan, just building up worse outcomes. Maybe this announcement will be followed up by an actual plan, lets hope so.
Labour has already approved or overridden detrimental builds in medway and London councils can build in medway and put their tenants in but leave local services to pick up the bill.
It left them open to criticism from all angles. Obvious one was that it was being done to house migrants which they did not handle well. Its obvious that part if the problem is 10 million immigrants extra over the last ten years.
Should have been announced as part of an infrastructure and housing plan. This should have formally enforced a ban on housing without adequate transport, health, water, flooding and social provision. I do not know of any new development that meets anywhere near these standards. Infrastructure must be built before a single house is built.
There also was no enforced social housing or affordable housing rule.
The 1940s great build that i am familiar with is the massive temple estate in Strood which was built on part of Cobham Woods. The house that i was born in was backed directly onto the woods.
Infrastructure went in first then the shops, medical and schools. Also there were 40 factories and 40,000 more jobs than now in medway.
Whats happening now is nothing like it - its just a free for all for pure profit.
All planning seems to have gone, housing is no good without work or is the plan to just pay people not to work.
As said kents roads apart from 2 motorways are the same as hundreds of years ago and the flood risks have not changed.
So the house building is great but without any plan, just building up worse outcomes. Maybe this announcement will be followed up by an actual plan, lets hope so.
Labour has already approved or overridden detrimental builds in medway and London councils can build in medway and put their tenants in but leave local services to pick up the bill.
LancsGordoRoad
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I applaud HMG`s apparent genuine motivation in building more dwellings. There`s an undeniable need for more local authority built and owned houses/apartments - it`s really quite urgent. I`d also like to see more made of potential residential spaces that sit over town centre commercial premises.
It`s certainly a big challenge, not least because of the shameful lack of infra-structure and services and not helped at all by a lack of tradespeople such as builders, electricians and plumbers.
Sittingbourne lacks sufficient choices when it comes to the night time economy - Faversham`s a better night out.
It`s certainly a big challenge, not least because of the shameful lack of infra-structure and services and not helped at all by a lack of tradespeople such as builders, electricians and plumbers.
Sittingbourne lacks sufficient choices when it comes to the night time economy - Faversham`s a better night out.
PuB
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Faversham is a great night out, but you’d expect it to be when it’s a brewery town
LancsGordoRoad
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markinkent
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We need more housing in this country, that's a simple fact. Where they get built is always controversial and should include an investment in supporting infrastructure like roads, schools and hospitals. I travel to the North West alot for work and I am always surprised that pretty soon after leaving London is country side all the way. Even though we are a small island, there is still lots of countryside around us.
If I lived in a village I wouldn't be happy that it expanded to be a town but the new generation need a place to call home. The only way prices will come down is if supply matches demand or even better supply exceeded demand.
The alternative is to find a way to free up family houses for families, how many 3 bedroom house now contain just a couple or single person as the kids have flown the nest. That's really hard. I'll be in that situation soon and have no intention of downsizing from a 5 bed. Lots of familiy homes are blocked in that way so all you can do is build more.
I'd like to see the nation build more social housing and collect the rent to reinvest in more social housing rather let private landlords hoover up. The tory policy of selling off all the social housing never made sense to me.
If I lived in a village I wouldn't be happy that it expanded to be a town but the new generation need a place to call home. The only way prices will come down is if supply matches demand or even better supply exceeded demand.
The alternative is to find a way to free up family houses for families, how many 3 bedroom house now contain just a couple or single person as the kids have flown the nest. That's really hard. I'll be in that situation soon and have no intention of downsizing from a 5 bed. Lots of familiy homes are blocked in that way so all you can do is build more.
I'd like to see the nation build more social housing and collect the rent to reinvest in more social housing rather let private landlords hoover up. The tory policy of selling off all the social housing never made sense to me.
Excellent post.
I gather they have incentives in Holland or Denmark (can't remember which) for people to downsize and it's been effective. Lots of couples and singles rattling around in huge houses that are unsuitable for them. Meanwhile we have over 150,000 children living in temporary accommodation. This is damaging to them and thence ultimately our whole economy. Medium and long term we'd be better off sorting this out but Labour hasn't got a pot to piss in.
Answer would be a Wealth tax but sadly, no chance of getting that.
Previous schemes supposedly to improve the housing situation have been a disaster, such as 'Help to Buy' which has served to just bump up prices even more.
Thanks to an inheritance, my kids are in the minority who are ok, so I'm not spouting off out of bitterness or jealousy. I'm ok as a featherbedded Pensioner about to get an inflation busting increase. I'm genuinely concerned for the state of our country and its failed housing 'market'.
The only thing going for Sittingbourne are the villages surrounding it. Agree that we need more housing and I’ve I’ve no problem with grey belt development but that’s not Rodmersham. It’s a village with loads of character surrounded by nice countryside. Plenty other brown or grey sites in the area where they could focus development.
Jerryattrick
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It was a mistake for labour to JUST announce they are out to override planning permission to build houses.
It left them open to criticism from all angles. Obvious one was that it was being done to house migrants which they did not handle well. Its obvious that part if the problem is 10 million immigrants extra over the last ten years.
Should have been announced as part of an infrastructure and housing plan. This should have formally enforced a ban on housing without adequate transport, health, water, flooding and social provision. I do not know of any new development that meets anywhere near these standards. Infrastructure must be built before a single house is built.
There also was no enforced social housing or affordable housing rule.
The 1940s great build that i am familiar with is the massive temple estate in Strood which was built on part of Cobham Woods. The house that i was born in was backed directly onto the woods.
Infrastructure went in first then the shops, medical and schools. Also there were 40 factories and 40,000 more jobs than now in medway.
Whats happening now is nothing like it - its just a free for all for pure profit.
All planning seems to have gone, housing is no good without work or is the plan to just pay people not to work.
As said kents roads apart from 2 motorways are the same as hundreds of years ago and the flood risks have not changed.
So the house building is great but without any plan, just building up worse outcomes. Maybe this announcement will be followed up by an actual plan, lets hope so.
Labour has already approved or overridden detrimental builds in medway and London councils can build in medway and put their tenants in but leave local services to pii up the bill.
It left them open to criticism from all angles. Obvious one was that it was being done to house migrants which they did not handle well. Its obvious that part if the problem is 10 million immigrants extra over the last ten years.
Should have been announced as part of an infrastructure and housing plan. This should have formally enforced a ban on housing without adequate transport, health, water, flooding and social provision. I do not know of any new development that meets anywhere near these standards. Infrastructure must be built before a single house is built.
There also was no enforced social housing or affordable housing rule.
The 1940s great build that i am familiar with is the massive temple estate in Strood which was built on part of Cobham Woods. The house that i was born in was backed directly onto the woods.
Infrastructure went in first then the shops, medical and schools. Also there were 40 factories and 40,000 more jobs than now in medway.
Whats happening now is nothing like it - its just a free for all for pure profit.
All planning seems to have gone, housing is no good without work or is the plan to just pay people not to work.
As said kents roads apart from 2 motorways are the same as hundreds of years ago and the flood risks have not changed.
So the house building is great but without any plan, just building up worse outcomes. Maybe this announcement will be followed up by an actual plan, lets hope so.
Labour has already approved or overridden detrimental builds in medway and London councils can build in medway and put their tenants in but leave local services to pii up the bill.
but less profit
Jerryattrick
Vital Football Hero
40% of Londoners are foreign born, thats 3.5 million. Medway and kent are taking the overspill from this with more and more 'troubled youngsters) and immigrants sent to medway and kent under government directives. On top of that many are fleeing london for a better chance for their kids.
Maybe somebody should have thought about growing the population without putting in the needed resources. As Starmer said it was a tory policy purposely done.
Maybe somebody should have thought about growing the population without putting in the needed resources. As Starmer said it was a tory policy purposely done.
PuB
Vital 1st Team Regular
One thing that has baffled me about the previous government is letting mature students come here with their spouses and dependents. That makes literally no sense as a policy at all.
Jerryattrick
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PuB
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Yeah it was Starmers point. But the complicated or unseen side of it was that since Brexit the mature students were coming from more places in the world than before. It opened the system to mass abuse which was then poorly funded and completely unable to work out the genuine applications to come here.
And I say that as someone deeply in favour of the free movement of people. If done properly it can be a fantastic thing.
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ARFUR CONNELL
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I've read that Rodmersham is to be treated to 8,500 new houses - what a soul destroyer for the present villagers.
