Houses are being built across an ever more wide area of this green and pleasant land…on the green belt, in flood plains and now in National Parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty.
The BBC isn’t interested in the real reason all these new homes are ‘needed’.
Because they would then have to admit that there is at least one downside to immigration.
This morning on ‘Today’ (2 hrs 43 mins) they had a look at new relaxed planning laws enabling people to build homes in National parks….but not a mention of why there is such a need to concrete over Britain.
Perhaps the dreaded Daily Mail can help out…or rather The House of Commons Library…you’d think the BBC might report something they said…but no…..
Two cities the size of Leeds needed to house influx of new migrants as officials fear migration will drive up house prices
- In next decade, migrants ‘will be responsible for 629,000 new households’
- Wave of people coming to the UK could drive up house prices
The House of Commons Library predicts that from 2011 until 2021 a further 1.4 million migrants will flow into Britain.
The House of Commons figures – based on data from the UK and EU statistical agencies – show the huge impact of Labour’s open-door immigration policy.
By 2046, an estimated 494 people will be squeezed into every square kilometre of England compared with 411 now and only 374 when Tony Blair took power in 1997.
“If it’s news, it’s news to us”.
I’ve given up on this whole debate. The fight has already been lost.
As high-rise living has become as unfashionable as mother-in-law jokes, tower blocks in cities nationwide are being demolished – in most cases for very good reason – yet are not being replaced by new tower blocks. It means that either the land the tower blocks once stood on are completely tarmacked over with low level housing (which creates just as many social problems as the flats), or new shopping areas are created in the hope that the residents of the redundant towers can be housed elsewhere.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of the concrete monstrosities that were erected post-war, but surely high-rise living has its benefits. We need to build upwards, and not outwards!!!
You will notice that, outside of Hong Kong, tower blocks have to be built quite far apart for reasons of light. The result is that there is little difference in the amount of land used for a high rise estate and a similar number of low rise homes, which do not have the well established social problems of high rise blocks.
We are told that there has been 5 million immigrants to the UK over the past 10 years: but never in the same sentence we urgently need 5 million new places to live. Although the BBC often mentions the housing shortage Those two thoughts have always been kept apart.
Not just homes, but hospitals, schools, better roads, more rail infrastructure, more shops, more old people’s homes…. the list of infrastructure needs skyrockets.
Labour, however, didn’t give a stuff. They just wanted to ‘rub the rights nose in diversity’.
It was crass arrogance. Time to simply say no and encourage people to leave.
You forgot to add food supply, water supply and (since what goes in comes out), improved sewage.
My God. With every day, week, month and year that goes by, I thank my lucky stars that I voted with my feet, and exited the Former UK some years ago.
How is the Ukraine these days.
Look at the bloody roads, no thought is given to getting from these ‘wonderful’ new homes to shops or ones place of employment.
I commute 12 miles, half of it dual carriageway, but every morning its a crawl taking me 45 minutes at best. I also live only 6 miles from the M4, that can take me 1/2 an hour or more when I’m going elsewhere. Add in a closed road because of flooding its a bloody nightmare.
The area is bursting at the seams, yet near to me they want to build another 300 houses and 5 miles away another 300 (on a flood plain) but no bloody thought is given to access to and from.
And lets not mention the driving skills of our ‘enrichers’ who seem to favour 40 mph on the outside lane of a dual carriageway when the inside is clear because they’re turning right in 5 and a half miles time….
But everything is just great in the wonderful multi cult world of the bBC….
Rant over…
The infrastructure has to be built NOW . Have these migrants paid for this ?
well i dont want to be nasty,i am quite a nice guy really,but i think these new migrants from the third world countrys in south east asia and africa and these third world immigrants from eastern europe should be housed in these propertys that are prone to flooding in these flood plains,the message must go out that this country called england is so overpopulated there is no room in this country anymore to live and the only alterative is to live in areas where i am afriad as new immigrants you risk getting flooded out due to are are jet stream that wont behave itself just lately.you risk coming here as immigrants to a life of misery and up to your waists in floodwater,that to me might deter immigrants coming to this overcrowded country.