use our grey power to force real affordable, safe houses to be built whoch won't kill our planet but actually save it!!

www.lbc.co.uk/news/weather/police-kicked-homeless-woman-out-of-warm-corridor/

Justin Welby has apparently weighed in on the snobbish nimbyism surrounding new housing plans and talks about making housing about places to live rather than simply as investments. Apparently he has been critical in a book he has coming out next month of people owning second and even third homes, not for living in but just for the 'investment'. As I understand it, he's saying we seem to have forgotten what houses are for: shelter, warmth, homes.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/government-homeless-task-force-still-to-meet/

Do you think they will ever do anything before next winter?

www.24housing.co.uk/news/council-housed-young-homeless-family-in-dickensian-conditions/

This is what Haringey Council think of council tenants.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/developers-real-estate-homes-planning-permission-unbuilt-social-housing-crisis-figures-a8212641.html

That would make a big dent in the number of houses available.
Get them built!

www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/the-tory-housing-minister-was-in-a-private-facebook-group

that wants to sell off all council housing, and bring back workhouses for debtors.

Very useful for those who live and work in Kensington and Chelsea.

I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if someone has already posted this:

There is a new town already in progress near Plymouth. sherford.org/pages/faqs/84

www.24housing.co.uk/news/one-in-seven-homeless-in-kensington-chelsea/

We need beneficial ownership to be declared, so we know who is keeping houses empty in Kensington and Chelsea.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/welsh-government-plans-land-bank-tax/

Well done, Wales. The rest of the UK should follow to get more houses built.

Thnks, Maranta. That must be what my granddaughter meant when she said about the new railway station north of Cambridge.
She lives in Ely and goes to school in Cambridge.

We lived in Peterborough for ten years from 1975. That was similarly enlarged, but the newtown areas were built around the old city, so it didn't feel like you were in the middle of fields, unlike when we lived in Cramlington in the 60s.

durhamjen see www.northstowe.com/

Well done Sadiq Khan.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/landmark-move-to-offer-londoners-first-dibs-on-the-capitals-new-homes/

www.24housing.co.uk/opinion/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-a-unique-challenge-and-opportunity/

All fifteen housing associations in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are getting together to build as many houses as they can. A few years ago there was talk of a new newtown between Cambridge and Peterborough. Anyone know what happened to that?

Sounds excellent, paddyann. I have noticed that Sadiq Khan is doing a lot in London, too, and Andy Burnham in Manchester.
Perhaps that is the best way, to not rely on the government. Unfortunately, most places in England have to rely on what the government gives them back from our council taxes.

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More results from social-bite.co.uk » This cafe does amazing work for the homeless,recently they held a sleepout in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh which raised several millions of pounds.Within weeks they started building the first 40 odd homes specifically for the homeless .People DO care ,if we cant get government onside then maybe this is the way forward .

This is absolutely appalling. Surely our grey power could be used to stop this.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/report-reveals-reality-of-renting-in-one-council-area/

This is what Bournemouth has been doing to stop rough sleepers lying on their benches.

"As a result of the report, Joseph Rowntree's conviction that it must be possible to provide better housing for people on low incomes led him to acquire 150 acres of land near the village of Earswick, two and a half miles to the north of the centre of York. The planner Raymond Unwin and the architect Barry Parker were commissioned to produce an overall plan for a new 'garden' village and the detailed designs for its first houses. They also designed the garden cities of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City.

The building of New Earswick created a balanced village community where rents were kept low, but still represented a modest commercial return on the capital invested. Houses were open to any working people, not just Rowntree employees. The village was to be a demonstration of good practice."

A Garden village on the outskirts of York.
Talk about rewriting history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Village,_Kingston_upon_Hull#History_and_description

It doesn't matter what type of housing is being discussed if local people petition against it. Not in My Back Garden.

Some posters on GN have said that they have petitioned as such and yet call for more housing to be built

Planning is a bugger of a job and I suppose we must learn to accept that whilst we like to keep things as they are in our communities and life it cannot continue.

I hope this works out well:-

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38486907

" England's first garden villages have been proposed for 14 sites spread across the country from Cornwall to Cumbria, the government has announced.

Ministers have lent their support to 14 planned developments which will each deliver between 1,500 and 10,000 properties and establish new villages.

The new garden villages could provide 48,000 homes, the government says.

Larger garden towns in Buckinghamshire, Somerset and the Essex-Hertfordshire border were also approved.

Proposals include building a 1,000-home garden village on the site of a former airfield in Deenethorpe, Northamptonshire, and a garden town on green belt land on the Essex-Hertfordshire border.

The developments will be distinct new places, with their own community facilities, rather than extensions to existing urban areas, the government said."

The 14 new garden villages will be in:

Long Marston in Stratford-upon-Avon
Oxfordshire Cotswolds, West Oxfordshire
Deenethorpe in Northamptonshire
Culm in Devon
Welborne in Hampshire
West Carclaze in Cornwall
Dunton Hills in Essex
Spitalgate Heath in Lincolnshire
Halsnead in Merseyside
Longcross in Surrey
Bailrigg in Lancaster
Infinity Garden Village in Derbyshire
St Cuthberts in Cumbria
Handforth in Cheshire
The three new garden towns will be in:

Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury area)
Somerset (Taunton area)
Essex-Hertfordshire border (Harlow and Gilston)

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-homelessness-england-crisis-8000-buy-a8181871.html

Good for the homeless and rough sleepers.

Timber frame is generally cheaper and certainly much quicker to build. You can go further and used prefabricated panels which enable a house to be completed in a matter of days.

Most new houses in Scotland and many European countries have been timber framed for a long time but timber frame construction has never been as popular in England.

I'd like to tell you that locally sourced materials will always be cheaper, but sadly that is not the case. I know of one small housing development where slate and hard landscaping materials were imported from China.