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Insulate every home in Britain by 2035 as the single biggest climate and poverty measure
The UK has some of the least energy-efficient housing stock in western Europe. Around 19 million homes have an EPC rating below C. These homes leak heat, cost more to run, and push people into fuel poverty. Improving them is simultaneously
Strong support for affordable housing, with some very minor and entirely reasonable conditions
The Nimby Liberation Front is unambiguous in its support for affordable housing. The country is in a housing crisis. Young people cannot afford to buy. Young families are being pushed out of villages like ours. This is a tragedy and we stan
Scrap business rates entirely and replace them with a land value tax
Business rates are a tax on improvement. You invest in your property, you pay more. You leave it derelict, you pay nothing. This is backwards. It punishes exactly the behaviour we want and rewards exactly the behaviour we dont. Land value
MPs who vote on housing policy shouldnt be allowed to own rental properties
Quick one this. Something like a third of MPs own rental property on top of their own home. When those same MPs vote on housing policy, tenants rights, landlord tax — they are literally voting on their own income. Imagine if doctors were a
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
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
Enough with the luxury flats, where are the actual homes for people?
I saw a group of Year 10s yesterday, all local kids I know, sketching out their dream houses during a rainy lunch break. One girl, Aisha, who’s so bright it’s criminal, was drawing this modest three-bed terrace with a little garden. She sai
Enough is Enough: Let's End the Nightmare of Sky-High Rents and Buy-to-Let Landlords
It drives me mad, seeing young families and working people priced out of decent housing in their own communities. My parents worked their fingers to the bone, and even then, owning a home felt like an impossible dream. Now, thanks to endles
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
Prioritise Scots in Scottish Homes
We should introduce a new policy that prioritises social housing for Scottish residents, particularly those who have been on the waiting list for years. This is desperately needed because it's getting to the point where people who have live
Enough with the 'affordable' housing that's neither affordable nor housing! When will they build for real people?
Seriously, why do we keep seeing these tiny flats marketed as 'affordable' when they cost an arm and a leg and are barely big enough to swing a cat in, let alone raise a family? We're building luxury boxes for investors while ordinary peopl
End Greedy Landlordism Now
I'm so fed up with seeing families in Hebden Bridge struggling to find a decent place to live, all because some wealthy investor is more interested in making a quick buck than in providing a home for people who need it. I've seen it firstha
Enough is Enough! Stop Builders Rushing Houses On Our Green Belt
We need to freeze all new housing developments on designated green belt land immediately. This isn't about stopping people from getting homes, it's about protecting the areas we have left before they're all gone. Developers are just land-ba
Scrap the planning permission nightmare
I'm proposing that we drastically simplify the planning permission process to get more houses built quickly. This is needed because the current system is a mess, it's slow, and it's a major barrier to getting new homes built, which is why w
Fix Our Housing Mess Already
I was talking to my daughter the other day and she's struggling to find a place to rent that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. She's working two jobs and still can't afford a decent flat in Harrogate. It's ridiculous that someone who's employe
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
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