IdleTymes Blog

Well not if it’s got any sense!  According to the BBC news website the National Trust is ready to “challenge new developments and intervene in planning inquiries, even if it is not directly involved with the land being targeted for development”. This is in response to Gordon Brown’s pledge of building 3 million new homes within the next 13 years. 

On one hand it could, and should, be argued that the UK has a housing shortage and too many people are in low quality housing or even living on the streets.  On the other hand, if we are already so short of houses, why are we continuing to allow such a high volume of immigrants into the country?  This isn’t about racism, or being pro-British, it’s merely commonsense!  We’re already over-populated and under-resourced.  There ought to be an annual quota that is able to be absorbed into our current social infrastructure rather than a seemingly endless flow of people into the country.  Has anyone in the government noticed that we’re living on an island with geographic limitations?  I know that we’re part of the EU, but that’s just paper and red tape, we’re not physically attached!

How much of this proposed housing will address the problems of those in need of low priced good quality homes, and how much of it is going to be priced above the wages of those who really need the homes?   I suspect there’ll be very little that will help the needs of Britain’s homeless!

Yes we need housing, but we need to look at creating a solution for those who desperately need it before implementing such a huge property building project, and we also need to ensure that legislation is passed to stop further overcrowding from an over abundance of immigrants making things worse than they already are.  Until then, the National Trust should continue to distrust and intervene in the government’s planning inquiries until the government is forced to look at the causes and solutions for the current housing crisis instead of fixing broken bones with Elastoplasts!