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That is included in the empty homes numbers.

Smaller housebuilders have largely left the industry over the last 20 years. The architects and consultants fees required just to risk it on outline planning permission, are now multi £10k’s per unit. The capital needed and risks are too great. Leaving the large and some medium, with far...

Good post. One big reason studentifcation is in retreat is the completion of medium to vast sized halls of residence/student accommodation blocks. Coldean Avenue and Lewes Road are glaring examples, there are also significant new blocks elsewhere eg in streets off of Lewes Road and on the...

A wealth of interesting local data in there, thank you. Rents stand out as frighteningly high. Ironically as many of us here are against building on greenfield, squeezed in by the sea and countryside, prices and rents will forever escalate away. This is an incredibly popular city to live in...

I’ve real world knowledge of this. In our city they’re being taken by recently qualified teachers, also nurses, junior doctors, single parents with kids and formers immigrants/refugees with families. Housing associations don’t make a penny of profit, developers/land owners don’t on those units...

Always the thin end of the wedge with concreting over flora. When the old West Hove Golf Course was moved, you can bet the then Hove Council promised that the Sainsbury’s would be the sole development EVER. Similarly I know for a fact that opponents of the Brighton Bypass, before it was...

Our population has increased by 9 millions since 1997. We need millions more new homes and renovated homes. Supply is miles behind. There are 261,000 long term (> 6 months) empty homes, often in regions where homeless numbers are less. For parliament to create legislation to appropriate...