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Nobody should pay more than 40% of their income on rent
Had this conversation in the pub last tuesday and everyone agreed which is rare because Geoff disagrees with everything on principle but even Geoff thinks rent is out of control. If youre spending more than 40% of your take home pay on keep
We fully support new housing as long as it is built somewhere we cannot see it
We are absolutely committed to solving the housing crisis. Everyone deserves an affordable home. This is a fundamental value of our party and we will never waver from it. However. The proposed development on the field behind Waitrose woul
Let builders build: reform planning from the ground up
Britain does not have a land shortage. It has a permission shortage. Only about 6% of English land is built on. The reason housing is expensive is not that we have run out of space. It is that the planning system makes it extraordinarily di
Stop Pricing Out Our Kids
I was talking to a parent at the school gates the other day and she was telling me about her son who's just graduated from university and is now working in London, but he's having to share a tiny flat with three others just to be able to af
The housing crisis isn't just about numbers, it's about building proper homes for our young people, not just ugly boxes on fields.
My biggest frustration with housing is seeing young families, including my own children’s friends, being priced out of the very towns and villages they grew up in. It impacts community so much when young people have to move miles away just
Kick Out the Luxury Flats, Bring Back Affordable Homes
I'm proposing that we introduce a new rule that at least 50 percent of all new housing developments in Bristol have to be affordable homes, and I think it's about time someone did something about the luxury flat epidemic in our city. The fa
Make it illegal to build housing estates without a GP surgery
New estate of 500 homes went up near us last year. Lovely houses. Absolutely no infrastructure. No GP surgery. No school places. No bus route. No pharmacy. No park. Five hundred families all trying to register at a practice that was alread
Stop Pricing Out Our Kids from Housing
I'm fed up with seeing my students' families struggle to find decent housing in our area, it's like the system is designed to keep them down. I've had kids come to school exhausted because their family's been forced to move to the other sid
sort out grimsby's housing mess
what's the point of having a town full of homes if none of them are affordable for the people who actually live here, love. I mean think about it, my own kids can't even afford to buy a house in their own hometown, it's ridiculous. I reck
Enough with the empty houses while people are sleeping rough!
I saw a family yesterday, two young kids, shivering outside the old Boots on Royal Avenue. They’d been moved on by the council twice already that day. It breaks your heart. Meanwhile, I know of at least three houses on my street alone that
Abolish planning permission fees for small developments
The current planning system is a major obstacle to getting new homes built, and the fees associated with it are a big part of the problem. These fees can be a significant burden for small developers and individual homeowners who want to bui
Build on Brownfield Sites Not Greenbelt
We should be building new homes on old industrial sites not on green spaces that people around here actually care about. This is just common sense, we've got loads of old factories and pits that are just sitting empty, why are we letting de
Fix Welsh Housing Before It's Too Late
What's the point of having a country with its own government if we can't even sort out housing for our own people. I mean think about it, we've got Welsh families stuck on waiting lists for years while outsiders buy up properties for holida
Stop Pricing Out Our Kids
What's the point of working hard and saving up if our own kids can't afford to live near us, I mean it's getting ridiculous. I was talking to my daughter the other day and she's looking at flats in Birmingham, prices are just insane, she's
Planning applications should be decided in 8 weeks not 8 months
Our garage conversion took the council 7 months to approve. Nobody objected. Fully compliant with building regs. Seven months to say yes to a brick room. If a standard application isnt decided in 8 weeks it should be automatically approved
Enough of these 'luxury flats' nobody local can afford! We need proper homes.
I was walking past the old post office down the road the other day, you know the one. It’s been boarded up for ages, an eyesore. Now I hear they’re planning to knock it down and build more of those ridiculously expensive flats aimed at inve
Stop letting developers just buy up villages for holiday lets!
We need a national policy that gives local councils the power to limit the number of new properties built specifically for holiday lets or second homes. My town of Bakewell is drowning in them, and it’s pushing ordinary families out because
Enough is Enough: Let's Actually Build Some Decent Homes for Working People
We need a radical shift in housing policy, starting with a massive, publicly funded social housing building program. This isn't about tinkering around the edges; it's about addressing a crisis that's locking generations out of a secure futu
Require 50% affordable housing in new developments
The state of housing in our city is dire, with far too many people priced out of even the smallest apartments. It's not uncommon to see entire families crammed into tiny flats, or young professionals forced to share with multiple roommates
Sort Out Affordable Housing Already
I'm fed up with seeing young people priced out of the housing market, my own kids included. It's ridiculous that they're expected to shell out half their salary on rent or save up for years just to get a mortgage. I've worked hard all my li
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