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About Contact Links Caveat The DR Manifesto...Manifesto I'm not standing for office. I'd be a shite politician, partly because I'm unpleasantly honest and partly because I hate wearing suits... If I wasn't, this is what I'd be campaigning on... (26 Feb 2007) 'Please let my Mother live!'...Environment There's only one way to ensure our survival as a species - live sustainably. It's easy! Nuclear Idiocy (15 January 2007) Sustainability (16 October 2006) Global Warming (15 October 2006) Housing Shortage (15 October 2006) Cycle Paths (11 October 2006) Tourism (10 October 2006) Main Topics...Make Drugs Legal Prohibition doesn't work, duh! It gives too much money to organised crime... Updated: Letter to the Telegraph 'Alcohol and Tobacco are the gateway drugs - if there is such a thing...' (Upd: 11 Mar 2006) Errant Fathers How can fathers be expected to 'take responsibility' for their kids when the law always presumes in favour of the mother? I got a reply - and here's my reply to that Welfare and Compensation Culture = No Legal Responsibility (Upd: 11 Mar 2007) A New Political System A solution for: Party Funding, Reform of The House Of Lords, and it incidentally makes the whole voting process far more democratic... (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Principles My principles of government. (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Road Pricing Tony Blair and the entire Labour Government are cretins... Road pricing has to be the most hare-brained scheme ever - devised by the evil cretinous muppets from hell - the Politicians... (19 Feb 2007) Old People Old folks have no respect in our culture. That is so wrong!... (18 Feb 2007) Poverty How do we define poverty? How do we reduce it? Well, not taxing the poor would help... (18 Feb 2007) Europe The EU is a criminal organisation intent on conquest... (Upd: 30 January 2007) Cash for Honours Why would anyone give money to a political party?.. (16 January 2006) Social Security A fresh approach to the problem of how to provide social security... (15 January 2006) David Cameron David Cameron and the Conservative Party... (12 December 2006) Random Rants Some random musings... (12 November 2006) Prisons If prisoners are 'paying their debt to society' - why is is so damn expensive to keep them? (21 October 2006) Tax Taxes kill businesses and people. (16 October 2006) Free Speech Some peoples brains work overtime trying to figure out how to turn opinions into insults... (14 October 2006) Health Why are tax-payers footing the bill for sex-change operations and IVF? (13 October 2006) Law British law is stupidly complex and inefficient. You'd never design a system like that... (13 October 2006) Education Educators need to aim higher, and politicians need to butt-out. (12 October 2006) Security It was a no-brainer that invading Iraq with Bush would cause more grievances than it solved. When has starting a war ever brought peace? (8 October 2006) |
How To Solve The Housing Shortage15 October 2006 England may be lacking cheap housing, but it sure isn't lacking in cheap-looking housing!Problem: not enough houses in the country - hence high prices. Reason for the problem: Planning laws make it impossible to build on greenbelt land. 
Building cheap housing is not the solution - unless we want the country overrun by more cramped and tasteless estates. Building shitty-little-homes will not lower the prices of the decent ones!What we actually need is lots more really nice houses. If there were more of those, property prices would be lower across the whole market. If people could build themselves a really nice home for a sensible price, then lots of them would...
Building RegulationsThe homes built on the green zones, must comply with some fairly stringent building regs to ensure they look nice etc... These are just a starting point - would need more thought...
I don't agree with defining the colours, or materials because people should be free to be creative. I'd like to see the country filled with fantastic, inspirational dwellings that people love. Diversity is a good thing! Benefits
DisadvantagesThere would inevitably be less land available for farming, but it would benefit wildlife as gardens are more diverse environments than fields of crops. If the building regulations weren't properly designed and enforced, the countryside could end up dotted with bad-looking houses. 
Why doesn't the government encourage self-builds?Why does the government seem to hate individuality, diversity and self-determination. One of the main reasons why England is so great is because we have always gone our own way, done our own thing. Ours was a culture of freedom. We used to believe that people should be able to do what they want - as long as it doesn't harm anyone else... But not any more... Mini-Rant: The nanny state wants to do everything for us, it's interfering where government was never supposed to go. It wants to decide where houses are built - and what they should be like. The government agrees massive developments of minging estates on green-belt land, but it won't let people build beautiful individual homes. Either way the green belt is slowly going. At the moment - it's mostly government agreed, large-scale estates and 'affordable housing'. Would you rather the green belt was replaced by minging estates, or individual, low-density luxury homes?CommentsThis is a sporadically moderated blog. I am not responsible for anything below! There are no comments for this page. To add your own comments, click here to login or register |
