La costruzione di case in Inghilterra cade a un basso decennio sotto il lavoro
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/01/housebuilding-in-england-falls-to-near-decade-low-labour/
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
La costruzione di case in Inghilterra cade a un basso decennio sotto il lavoro
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/01/housebuilding-in-england-falls-to-near-decade-low-labour/
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
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Lies. They wouldn’t have all the catchy sayings if they weren’t building loads of houses.
Yeah god forbid that a Labour government step up and actually provide desperately needed decent social housing.
Man my eyes are fucked cos i read this as Horse building.
If I can play devil’s advocate for a moment here surely there’s no point ramping up building until the Planning and Infrastructure Bill goes through
Yep. She’s already hundred thousand houses behind her target. Good luck Rayner. I sincerely mean it. We need those houses.
Their planning laws are still going through parliament so tis not that surprising. One good sign is that planning applications increased last yearz but as with everything it’ll take a while to sort out properly.
Ah yes and at the Budget in just under three months, we’ll all get to see smug Starmer and his side-kick grinning while telling us that they’ve built more homes than ever and that they’re – and I quote – ‘getting on with the job.’
And the houses that are being built are shockingly built with absolutely zero recourse to the builder when things need putting right
Nobody surprised except the gullable Labour voters.
No one’s got the money to buy them. We’ve got multiple half finished estates round here. They’ve sat half built for ages when they struggled to sell the last few plots on the first phases. They’ve lowered prices but not enough (and IMO even at drastically reduced prices these horrible cookie-cutter boxes where you’re living in each other’s pockets aren’t particularly desirable…I think this is backed up by older houses on older estates generally selling OK. They’re often cheaper because they would need some work, but you have a good semi or detached houses with actual space around them)
Anyone who believes they’ll get remotely close to their target is completely clueless.
Can someone explain to me in simple terms why this is so difficult?
Another set of facts dressed up in such a way that it basically becomes a lie to catch the ignorant unaware…
Here’s the facts:
* Planning a development takes YEARS – these homes would have been started (planning stages) at least 3 year ago, probably more like 5.
* The build alone takes at a year or more in most cases.
* An EPC is awarded after a survey on a FINISHED house.
* What this “slump” shows is that under the pervious Tory government the rate at which new build projects were being kicked off slowed down.
* As in fewer new builds were started back then, so fewer are finishing now.
* Any plans Labour have to build homes, even if being rushed will only be in planning stages right now, chances are you won’t see significant movement until early next year.
* Chances are most of the 1.5 million homes will be built in years 4 and 5
All that said I personally think labour will fail in their target, especially given how all signs point to them taking power and realizing how absolutely broke, and in shambles our finances were.
I genuinely believe the countries finances are vastly worse than they’re even letting on with their “black hole” talk (to prevent market panic, and consumer confidence breakdown). Not in growth, GDP or any of the obvious signs, but in debt, interest rates and realization of the vast costs of essential infrastructure that has been neglected under privatization.
If you want to go down the “how fucked are we” rabbithole, look up Public Sector Net Worth – PSNW.
A financial indicator that looks at national debt as well as national assets (the value of the stuff the government still owns), and how the UK is one the worst off nation in the EU (Think only Italy and Portugal score worse) – due to selling off literally everything in the 80s and 90s.
We have new estates on every edge of our town no new schools, doctors or dentists just more people and no more low cost housing, big companies are buying up cheap houses and privately renting back to government to house migrants.
What the telegraph are leaving is out is that EPCs are issued when a home is finished and ready for sale/occupation, so they reflect decisions/planning made years earlier.
This fall is almost certainly tied to planning pipelines and economic conditions from the previous tory government. Labour has only been in power for a year, which isn’t enough time for their planning reforms to feed through into completions data.
It’s hardly a surprise. Houses are generally built using loans. They house builders have to sell the houses fairly quickly to fund the next part of their development without getting swamped by interest payments. Buying the land, paying for the materials, utilities and the labour is not cheap, and that money is gone until something sells.
When a government goes out of its way to make people poorer, while upping stamp duty, houses stop selling.
Therefore, developers will simply mothball some of their land until things improve.
That’s kinda what you expect when the Tories, and their Torygraph, get a lot of tradespeople to leave by Brexiting us and then the Russians crank up the price of energy (and therefore housebuilding materials) by invading Ukraine.
The number of homes being built lessens, all the while we see more and more people flocking here to live.
If we’re seeing less housing available, does this mean we’re going to be expected to pay higher prices for housing due to the heightened demand from less availability?
This is what happens when you want companies to build your houses but you immediately introduce anti business taxes. This Labour government are stupid.
As a nation we are broke. We sold off all the country’s assets in the 80s, we have now left Europe with no safety net and have a the 3rd worst debt problem in Europe behind Portugal and Italy.
We think our peers are countries like France, US or Germany but in fact our peers are Spain, Poland and Italy – Poland is going to be streets ahead of us soon.
There is no way they want to build loads of new housing because housing prices will then drop and it’s the only thing that we still have that makes people feel rich.
Remind us again how many the tories built in 14 yrs of power?
The government should be less involved in every aspect of our lives. Empower devolved nations and county councils to take on these jobs.
1 million homes in 5 years target.
1.242 million inward migration in 1 year.
Once more the torygraph spews outs it agenda even as the new bill goes through parliament
This is a conservative statistic, even if labour put plans in on day 1 of being in power it’s unlikely there’d be a spade in the ground.
Yep, in my area only 50 houses were built when 20,000 new people arrived, nice.
Naturally rent prices have gone up exponentially because you can’t rob your fellow landcunt of his exploitation.
The current planning system is underfunded. I spoke with head of planning today at my local council and she just moaned how she doesn’t have enough staff
1) This is principly a private sector issue.
2) For the government to impact houses built in a meaningful way, it would take several years. Labour has been in for 12 months.
All in all, this headline is junk.
Alternate title:
House building slightly up from its decade low under the tories.
Wait a minute. I thought she said she was building 1.5 million homes because there was a housing crisis. Then when she was asked if the 1.5 million homes would go to the 2.5 million net migrants her chancellor was bringing in, she said there were plenty of houses.
10 years ago was a Conservative government, so not sure which government in power is stated
From the BBC article on this topic:
> The number of new homes in England fell during Labour’s first year in office, but applications to build more rose over the past six months.
They would want to wait for the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill to be passed before actual start building more houses