"Roland Perry" wrote in message ...

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04:27:26 on Wed, 29 Aug 2012, 77002 remarked:
Unless the UK indulges in another round of building "new towns", the
national housing shortage is actually only solvable at the local
level. In other words build homes where the people and jobs are, or
move the people and jobs.

Unfortunately the policy for most of the country seems to be to build
new estates on largely brownfield and rural sites, in places where they
get the least objection. Correlating it with workplaces is the last
thing on the agenda.
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Where I am now there are plans for a further 10,000-15,000 homes on two edge
of town estates, to be linked to the town centre and main-line station by a
"quality" bus service.

There is a political campaign (by the party not in power) against this
development because it doesn't include any new "jobs". Quite how a property
developer (or a local council) are supposed to magically create some local
jobs is beyond me!

This is a dormitory town where everyone who lives here does so because it is
cheap and they commute (by train or car) to somewhere else to work. ISTM
that if there is a need for local improvements it is for the development to
fund a new mainline station as one of the new estates is plonk by the
railway line, but do they think this is necessary? No, of course not!

tim