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I think they try to put those sort of restrictive covenants in with new developments. Do i trust that they will work all the time? Not 100%

Well that would be a solution, but probably not an affordable one, unless you could recoup some massive amount of money spent on a pointless vanity project. Any thoughts? ;)

True - that is why low-cost homes need to be built nationwide to skew the available properties and their prices.

I don't know the economics of supply and demand in the UK housing market, but my genuine question is "Will building more houses inevitably mean that the overall housing market reduces in value?" You HAVE to start with building things that will sit at the bottom of the property ladder. Don't...

Aren't we always being told it's an ageing population? Wouldn't they be mad to ignore the views of almost one-third of the electorate (those over 65)? Don't they have a right to be included, no matter what benefits they might have had in their lives?

Anyone know what the latest data are regarding number of empty properties in England? I think it was about 600,000 but that was a while back. I don't know whether they include "under-used" in that figure. I think it might be a partial solution to the problem crisis, but would it have to be...

Oh do fuck off!

It's not guesswork, Ian. It is taken from opinions expressed during a debate on the housing market on BBC 5Live with an invited audience of young people trying to get on the housing ladder. It was perhaps a small, unrepresentative sample, but isn't that what the BBC is meant to try and avoid?

Smaller houses take up less land (so you can more of them per hectare), are cheaper, and are what is needed for young people to start on the housing ladder. When i was growing up 35 years ago or so, the expectation was that you buy somewhere small and cheap to start out (mine was a new-build...

In our village, the local planning authority regularly undertake housing needs surveys to inform the decisions that are made by the planning committee. It was evident that there were many people who said they would want a 2-bed bungalow to move into, or a shared ownership starter home. So when...

You need everything in the property ladder. Flats, 2-bed "starter" homes, 3- and 4-bed "family" homes and FAR more 2-bed bungalows for older people who want to downsize/de-complicate, thus freeing up the family homes for the ladder. ALL of these types need to be on EVERY sizeable development in...

Rachel Reeves appears to have bagged a job in an amusement arcade. "Can i have 50p worth of 2p pieces please?"

Political leaders (of any persuasion) who appear on the campaign trail in a formal shirt (no tie) with their sleeves rolled up. If they are hot, wear a short-sleeved shirt. They clearly do it to make the point that they have rolled their sleeves up to get on with the job! Tossers!

The lines are shit; the line *drawing* has been shit. It needs an electronically-drawn VERTICAL PLANE. Wan-Bissaka's shoulders were further forward than Haji's foot. There is nothing in the Laws to say it is based on the foot - it is the forward-most point. I was in Block 547 so didn't have the...

You WHAT??????

I'm not sure i understand your reply - but the original thread has vanished from my front page despite me posting something on it recently. Anyone know why that might be?

Sad but true

Where has it gone?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-69055989

Never 'eard of 'em!