That’s not how new build estates are, well built is it ?
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So like I said. Sub the work out to large experienced developers and take them to task on time and price.
The councils would have to get off their arse and check stage by stage.
Councils can’t run a bath at the best of times. So there have no hope with 1.5 million houses.
Let home builders, build the homes.
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I wonder where they think the materials will come from... Or will they be built of spit and tack?
On a job this morning - priced up as 2 hours customer to supply materials - arrived on site to find I need more of the materials as they didn't have enough (the customer did say they had difficulty obtaining) I've spent another 2 hours going round 4 suppliers just to get the stuff I needed to complete the work. Good job I'd planned the rest of today to be a paperwork day!
Certainly since the start of December I'm finding it harder to get everything at one suppliers. Chatting to my mate he tells me he finding it harder to find materials when he needs.
On a job this morning - priced up as 2 hours customer to supply materials - arrived on site to find I need more of the materials as they didn't have enough (the customer did say they had difficulty obtaining) I've spent another 2 hours going round 4 suppliers just to get the stuff I needed to complete the work. Good job I'd planned the rest of today to be a paperwork day!
Certainly since the start of December I'm finding it harder to get everything at one suppliers. Chatting to my mate he tells me he finding it harder to find materials when he needs.
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Developers buy direct from manufacturers at heavily discounted prices.
Way cheaper than any council could buy at.
Maybe Elon can offer some advise on this.
Rather than the land banking, that is.
Indeed, if they were "building the homes" already, we would not be in the situation that we are in.
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Pointless if they can't afford to build in the first place. Inflation over the last few years has been a killer for them.
The worker shortage is largely irrelevant then, if there’s no money to pay them.
How does that help your suggestion that
as want of land is not the thing that is stopping them.
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Sorry, I only glanced at your post.
I got the wrong of of said stick.
Let’s hope labour come up with a fix then
Older houses were rushed up in a day, too; especially inter-war houses. All sorts o' sins were buried under the floorboards on a Friday afternoon. Building techniques and materials have improved but builders are still the same...apart from noseall, obviously.
The government could regulate this, to lift the minimum permitted requirements.
It wouldn't solve the issues overnight but, over the years, the "average" affordable home would be better than the "average" of today is.
Honestly, I don't think they can.
To make real change, there has to be............real change.
What does the UK "need"? More houses, and more affordable houses.
What does the UK "want"?
Increasing the housing supply necessarily reduces the value of houses (which is what many want, and many absolutely do NOT want).
Telling someone that the house that they'd "slaved and grafted, to pay off" was now 25% less in value than it was, would be political suicide.
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Not really, councils/HAs could never build in bulk anyway, but they could add to the social stock in a limited way.
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