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OK following on from my pavement parking rant, here's another one to get off my chest 
A developer wants to build 150 houses just up the road and although there's an action group set up to fight it, I would imagine that it will get approved because the council will love all that extra council tax and the Gov is forcing new house targets on them anyway.
This is all notwithstanding the fact that there isn't adequate schools, doctors, roads, broadband, sewerage etc etc
Anyway I'm not just being a NIMBY I hate the fact that all this building is going on whereever I go, destroying the countryside but can understand if people need houses they need to be built. All that got me to thinking, why is it we need this massive house build program over the next X years. Does anyone know the facts and figures as to where this demand is coming from. Population wise X amount of people are born each year, X amount die, X amont arrive in the country, X amount leave... I know immigration is a big talking point but surely that can't be the only reason for this sudden house build demand ?
Where I live we are losing fields all over the place, plus have these bloody great 12 wheel lorries up and down roads that simply weren't designed for them as there's a sandpit close by that is in great demand for building work,
Look forward to someone explaining
Thx
A developer wants to build 150 houses just up the road and although there's an action group set up to fight it, I would imagine that it will get approved because the council will love all that extra council tax and the Gov is forcing new house targets on them anyway.
This is all notwithstanding the fact that there isn't adequate schools, doctors, roads, broadband, sewerage etc etc
Anyway I'm not just being a NIMBY I hate the fact that all this building is going on whereever I go, destroying the countryside but can understand if people need houses they need to be built. All that got me to thinking, why is it we need this massive house build program over the next X years. Does anyone know the facts and figures as to where this demand is coming from. Population wise X amount of people are born each year, X amount die, X amont arrive in the country, X amount leave... I know immigration is a big talking point but surely that can't be the only reason for this sudden house build demand ?
Where I live we are losing fields all over the place, plus have these bloody great 12 wheel lorries up and down roads that simply weren't designed for them as there's a sandpit close by that is in great demand for building work,
Look forward to someone explaining
Thx
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