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Weststander's Avatar Weststander said: Today 17:33 Quote Originally Posted by Half Time Pies View Post The planning system in England restricts the number of new homes. I know from many businesses and families I’ve acted and act for that many councils (eg BHCC, LDC, SDNP) and existing residents...

Yes absolutely crazy for the government to claim we needed austerity whilst at the same time the Bank of England was effectively creating billons of pounds of QE money to plough into the money markets and artificially inflate asset prices. If only we had instead used that money for...

I would be fully in support of a change in the way that we view home ownership and house building in this country but I think the point actually was 'if it was possible to get projects like this off the ground during a recession?' which I doubt it is/ was with the UK economy geared in the way...

I understand that Germany has a very different approach to housing than the UK with more of a focus on renting than home ownership which would probably account for the difference.

Our economy is very different now to what it was in the 1930's, in many ways we have an economy that is now based around house price inflation and cheap credit. House builders restrict supply in order to keep prices high and the psychology of the nation is that prices always go up, hence in a...

Doesn't seem to be the case in Britain, the crisis in 2008 saw the lowest house building rates since records began. As a result the government had to step in and effectively subsidise the house building industry with the Help to Buy Scheme.

I would imagine its because Brighton and Hove desperately needs new homes and particularly affordable ones and there are only a few sites in the city where it is possible to build them. I suspect therefore that for the council building new homes on that site is a much bigger priority than a new...