I built a 12 sq.m garden room in my terraced, 3 bed semi garden (new build, shared ownership, section 106. I had to pay to ask permission to build said garden room). I made it into a tiny home. Rented it to guy getting evicted, on benefits. The council found out and started charging council tax. He moved out, then the Council sad it was an empty 2nd home. Started charging me £370 pcm in C Tax for garden room, and £170 pcm per month for the house. Thinking about burning it down.
Combine all that with bad money and unremitting credit expansion and you have a perfect storm. When you look at the data in real terms there has not been a major increase in land aka house prices since 1945. But there has been a collapse in real wages - except for between 1979 and 1990, when real wages increased.
The Town and Country Planning Act, like so much of the post-war "social" legislation, is now unreasonable and not fit for purpose. Should we repeal all, and start again - with democratic approval? We have allowed a bureaucratic, somewhat totalitarian, State to develop. This must be reversed.
Will referenda be needed to by-pass political in-fighting, and re-establish reasonable systems and regulations in the interest of the people, and not, as it now appears, in the interests of the State's local and national bureaucracies, and its lawyers?
Thanks Steve. Since 1947 has anyone ever tried seriously to do anything to change this system. Is proper planning reform in any party manifesto. Did the hopeless Tories 2010-2024 consider making any changes when in Government or was it just yet another opportunity we let slip by.
We hear all of the time these days that planning reform is a key driver of economic growth.
Who are the vested interests blocking any progress. An army of bureaucrats on big salaries and gold plated pensions will be one group I suppose!
I built a 12 sq.m garden room in my terraced, 3 bed semi garden (new build, shared ownership, section 106. I had to pay to ask permission to build said garden room). I made it into a tiny home. Rented it to guy getting evicted, on benefits. The council found out and started charging council tax. He moved out, then the Council sad it was an empty 2nd home. Started charging me £370 pcm in C Tax for garden room, and £170 pcm per month for the house. Thinking about burning it down.
Combine all that with bad money and unremitting credit expansion and you have a perfect storm. When you look at the data in real terms there has not been a major increase in land aka house prices since 1945. But there has been a collapse in real wages - except for between 1979 and 1990, when real wages increased.
Dear Steve,
The Town and Country Planning Act, like so much of the post-war "social" legislation, is now unreasonable and not fit for purpose. Should we repeal all, and start again - with democratic approval? We have allowed a bureaucratic, somewhat totalitarian, State to develop. This must be reversed.
Will referenda be needed to by-pass political in-fighting, and re-establish reasonable systems and regulations in the interest of the people, and not, as it now appears, in the interests of the State's local and national bureaucracies, and its lawyers?
Thanks Steve. Since 1947 has anyone ever tried seriously to do anything to change this system. Is proper planning reform in any party manifesto. Did the hopeless Tories 2010-2024 consider making any changes when in Government or was it just yet another opportunity we let slip by.
We hear all of the time these days that planning reform is a key driver of economic growth.
Who are the vested interests blocking any progress. An army of bureaucrats on big salaries and gold plated pensions will be one group I suppose!
Inevitably, I led a debate and proposed bold but well researched reforms which were ignored:
https://www.stevebaker.info/2014/07/public-consent/
Pennington’s Liberating the Land was the source:
https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/liberating-the-land-the-case-for-private-land-use-planning/