Housing and development policies . AIBU to be thoroughly shocked ?

Planning regulations need a thorough root and branch sort-out anyway. At the moment, they benefit landowners, speculators, landlords and NIMBYs and are failing to provide the housing people need. The state needs to take more control, not leave housing to the "market".

I think they'll find the money, Katie59.

They'll probably find the land, too, without doing away with planning regulations...

It’s awful but that’s the way it’s always been done, is the Labour Party proposing to take over land and build more social housing

No they are not, because they know they would not be able to find the money to do it.

This all sounds awful.

20 years ago I was surrounded by arable farmland. Now the fields are covered with new housing estates, there's not enough doctor/dentist surgeries or schools to cater for the estates, but more worryingly, as farmland is being built on, where is our food - crops and livestock going to come from to feed all these people?

Maybe I'm being simplistic but it's something I can't work out...

Err...right...so it's OK to build expensive housing on fields (without provision for "affordable housing"), but not install solar panels?

Wake me up when the world has turned the right way round again!

Adding extensions without permission - seems odd, lumped with the rest of the proposed changes.

When and how quickly can we get these clowns out of the House of Commons? They are ruining our beautiful country and none appears to care.

Opens up the likelihood of environmental damage and the loss of significant history if there are no archaeological controls. Loss of employment, too, for those people who work in those fields. Another great stride forward for the economy, I don't think!