Is it true our councils get money form the Government to find land for houses

[Iggle Piggle]

if that's true then they must be barking mad. It should be the other way round, councils should be fined for building on any land unless it has previously been built on.
We will soon be a country of housing and roads. We will be forced to buy in all of our food products and with the price of oil going up we are heading for disaster.
Why do some people believe the answer is to build build build? It has got to stop !!!

[Old_Geezer]

It's inevitable since there is no control over the population explosion. It seems to be actively encouraged. One has to tackle causes not symptoms.

[didoatwork]

There are plenty of derelict and empty houses that could be utilised.

[chas2008]

i live in a small rural town surrounded by fields etc. planning permission has been granted for 1,000 + homes on these beautifull fields it will destroy the town.

[Old_Geezer]

There are insufficient derelict houses to make much of a difference. Empty one too except those should only be used with the owner's permission; unless low maintenance means there is a genuine environmental case for intervention, since what someone buys and how they use or don't use it, is their own personal decision, not for authorities to dictate about.

Aye, new towns may be a better answer for relieving the situation than spoiling that which folk have already created. But ultimately it is all merely keeping pace with a growing problem the government is failing to tackle. What when there is no more space, or no more scapegoats to scowl at and try to push around ? What when they come to the crunch, have no more 'sticking plaster relief' options, and have failed to solve the issue ?

[Dodger666]

OG is quite correct, you can't put a quart in a pint pot.

So long as this country has uncontrolled immigration(despite what the Goverment tell us), and can't get rid of the illegals already here they have to live somewhere. The only solution is to build more homes. Long after I've left this world, hopefully, everyone will be living in skyscrapers.

[johnk]

People need somewhere to live. Perhaps we should go upwards but as that's been tried and failed what else is there. It's not just the expansion of the population but there are more singles than ever due to the high divorce rate.

[Iggle Piggle]

I wonder if house developers visit the zoo? Human beings are animals, and if they watch the animals in a zoo when they are crowded together with no open space to roam, they start to turn on each other, or lose cognitive skills, pacing up and down in misery.
Look at a very cramped housing estate, and the nightly troubles involving the police - see the similarity ?