"Affordable housing starts dropped 88 per cent in the year to March, from 26,386 to 3,156, according to figures released last month — the lowest since records started in 2015." https://on.ft.com/3ZWKzN0
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A friend had planning permission, which included 3 affordable homes. The council told him to offer them to all 21 RSLs in the area. Only 3 responded but said no. No idea why (funds?). The council then released him from the obligation.
Councils acting as private landlords on their housing stock to raise funds can't help. But I was appalled at a recently proposed and rejected development in Redhill where the developer simply stated it couldn't afford to provide affordable housing. Blasted cheek.
A strawbale 100sqm house costs £20,000 to build. UK produces enough straw each year to build 250,000 strawbale houses. A strawbale house can give you a passive house as they are highly thermally efficient. Building with straw would help meet our climate objectives too. So why aren't we doing that?
Agreed. I think the reason is that if #builders and developers built low cost low carbon homes, they would make less profit, we reached out to 60 local builders recently, suggesting a community build, unfortunately there was zero interest.
Sadly l think you are right. So we carry on with expensive, thermally inefficient housing that won't enable us to meet our climate change obligations because house developers don't want their profits to drop. Capitalism is truly broken.
Exactly! instead of building these bloody awful estates from the likes of Barratt, Persimmon etc. We should be looking at the alternatives. The technology to build carbon neutral or prefabricated homes is staring us in the face but government is fixated on old school 'failed' property developers.
Agreed. Building with brick causes substantial emissions, is thermally inefficient and expensive. lf the govt were serious about climate change or making housing accessible they would be pushing developers away from brick.
The term affordable housing is, yet another, deliberate but seriously offensive application of the English language, to sanitise, disguise & mislead the simple but quite hideous fact that it's not affordable. Please don’t get me started on the abhorrent term of Living Wage.
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Is that really an excuse?